Honeymoon Part 3

The final installment! After the excursion, the rest of our time in Bora Bora was very low key.

Relaxed

Explored the resort

Enjoyed the sunsets...

...and happy hour...

...and fish from the lagoon

Learned there is no 5 second rule when you're eating on the beach

Played enough dominoes to last me a lifetime

Had a delicious lunch on the mainland (raw tuna trio)

Snapped a pic of these pretty flowers against these ugly cinderblocks.

We walked through town

Can't keep me from a food truck!

Cheapest meal. Biggest portion ever.

Kept our "mini-fridge" stocked with Hinano. (Thanks Angela!)

Climbed to the top of the hill to watch a beautiful sunset our last night there.

One last goodbye to the beautiful water before heading to the airport.

Most of all we enjoyed every single second just being together.

If you want to see all of the pictures, click here.

Our weekend in pictures

I have one more honeymoon post coming, but in the meantime check out our weekend in pictures. Turns out we really like to eat and drink.

Honeymoon Part 2

After 3 nights in Moorea we were off to Bora Bora for 5 nights. This time, we picked the good side of the plane to sit on and got to watch the amazing scenery as we flew overhead.





The water was violet. I swear. Beautiful.

The airport is on its own separate island, so after we were greeted

we took the Hilton yacht over to their island.

Pulling up to the Hilton's property

Enjoying the first sunset from our bungalow (while sipping on Tahiti Drink)

The next morning we went out on a boat tour to swim with sharks...

After the captain finished feeding them, we got in the water and had the chance to swim with them. I'm not going to lie, it had my heart pounding. But I'm glad we did it! Their bellies were full so they didn't show much interest in us.

After we snorkeled through a beautiful reef, the captain took John out on a secret mission. They came back with an octopus!

Next up was swimming with the sting rays. Same drill....the captain fed them and then we were allowed to get in the water with them. They were slimy and gross. No pics to share of us in the water with them, but come on over and we'll show you the video!

After that we took a boat tour around Bora Bora

Waves breaking on the reef. The waves are about 30 feet high!

And then stopped at a small motu (island) to talk around and collect shells

To be continued...

Honeymoon Part 1

It was less than a month ago that we went, but it already feels much longer. Our honeymoon was awesome. The landscape was more beautiful than I ever could have imagined. I feel like I was never really able to capture the beautiful colors of the water in my pictures. We did much eating, drinking, and relaxing. We flew to LA on Friday, December 3rd and spent the night there in order to catch our flight to Tahiti in the morning. Since we had some time to kill in LA we went to Manhattan Beach for drinks and dinner. The fog had rolled in over the ocean and gave it an eerie feeling.

We grabbed delicious cupcakes on our way back to the hotel.

In the morning we were off! The direct flight from LA to Papeete, Tahiti was about 9 hours. It wasn't nearly as bad as we thought.

We had our first taste of Hinano, the local brew.

We landed in the dark so we didn't get to see our surroundings until the morning. Pretty, but not the paradise we were expecting.

We were only in Papeete for about 12 hours before flying to the island of Moorea. We snuck in a quick trip to the local market before heading back to the airport.

A short 7 minute flight and we were in Moorea - and THIS is what we had been waiting for!

Awesome.

Outside our over water bungalow.

Standing on the see-through floor in our bungalow.

We snorkeled and saw some beautiful fish.

Headed off the resort for a delicious dinner one night.

And just enjoyed the scenery.

We spent 3 nights there before taking off to Bora Bora...(to be continued)