Well we are back from our all important and fancy anniversary holiday. It was well worth it in the end, the lots of travel to get there. I got to spend some great time with my wife in a place which is pretty damn nice. Great scenery, amazingly clear waters, good weather (if a little hot every now and then) and in the first place we stayed a really quiet place to be.
Just about everything I planned happened ok, a couple of trip mess ups due to weather etc (we had rain on one day that messed up that day) but we had things to do, lots of swimming and looking at tropical fish and other sea life, a private dinner on the anniversary day. We even got to do the swimming with green sea turtles that only a few people at a time a few times a day get to do.
I'm just really happy we got to go, it is something we have been wanting to do for a long long time and making it happen for our anniversary is so great. Being able to take the woman I love to there and treat her to somewhere like that. Full 5 star hotel resorts (with prices to match) and to experience that kind of holiday where you are treated about as well as you can without having your own private island with huge staff of slaves. At the first hotel we stayed at especially everyone was so careful to be helpful and friendly. We got so used to people saying hello and thank you in Tahitian to us that we started to do it as well.
There did seem to be a few strange things, like people bringing their children to a resort aimed at couples on honeymoon or romantic trips. That and the quite sorry state of the main island, seriously don't stay at any of the hotels on the main island of Bora Bora, stay at the ones around the outside or on their own island like we did.
It still seems slightly surreal that we managed to do that trip. It was something we have been trying to do for so long and getting it done for this important wedding anniversary. If it wasn't for the huge cost of going there I suspect we would go every year. At least it is something we can now say we have done and I manged to treat my wife to it to show her how much she means to me. If only the travel to that place was easier (2.5 hour drive, wait at airport, 2 hour flight, 8 hour at airport, 8 hour flight, 5 hour wait at airport, 1 hour flight, 1 hour at airport, 30 minutes on a boat.....), maybe I should persuade work to open an office there for me to work from :| .
Anyway we really really enjoyed ourselves despite the annoyances that happened there. It really was a great place for us to celebrate being together for so long.
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