Honeymoon Recap 1

I recapped the 2 weeks leading up to the wedding and the wedding itself now it is time to recap the 2 weeks after our wedding...the honeymoon. Nat and I travelled to the Cook Islands, which are a group of 15 islands, 13 inhabited, right in between Tahiti and New Zealand. We left Sunday night at around 1130pm and flew for about 10 hours on a direct flight to Rarotonga, the main island. We landed on the island at about 6am, local time, where we were supposed to wait until 1030am to catch another flight to a smaller island but luckily we got to squeeze onto the 8am flight.

Our flight to the other island, Aitutaki, was about 1 hour long and the views were absolutely stunning. The island of Aitutaki, has a population of about 1300 people not including tourists that come all year round. At Aitutaki, Nat had made reservations for us at the top five star resort and spa. The resort came and greeted us at the airport with leis and fresh coconuts.

Once we made it to the resort, which is on it's own separate little island that you have to take a ferry to, our bungalow was not ready because they weren't expecting us until 1130am, Nat and I got to explore the island and the resort. While exploring, we saw a Morey eel in about 1 foot of water!! It was crazy. Unfortunately, we didn't get a picture of it.

We finally got our room, which was a deluxe beachfront bungalow 5 feet from the water. It had a huge bed, TV/DVD, very big bathroom, a daybed and a hammock right in front of our door.

We spent the rest of the day sleeping on the hammock outside of our bungalow and then catching some dinner at one of the resorts two restaurants.

The next morning, Nat was gracious enough to wake me up so we could go watch the sunrise, which I don't think I have done since I was at camp on Catalina Island. It was really pretty so I tried not to complain too much!

On second day on the island, we decided to take the famous lagoon cruise that took us to all of the different motu ("islands" in Cook Island Maori) throughout the lagoon. The island is actually very interesting because it is a collection of a lot of little islands and one main inhabited island that were all made by an underwater volcano that erupted and created a ring of reef around all of the islands. So if you look out to the reef, the water is a deep deep blue but inside the reef the water is a clear blue/green and very shallow.

On the lagoon tour, we visited many motu; Honeymoon island, which was named after a couple who decided to have there wedding on this deserted island, Moturakau, one of the seven islands that were used for Survivor, and One Foot Island, which has many different legends on where the name came from.
Well, this is just two days into our honeymoon but unfortunately I have to do blog entry in many installments so this is it for now...