After saying hello to the fish off our bungalow’s deck, we went to eat breakfast at the hotel restaurant. As we waited for our food, a cute little cat showed up at our table looking for a snack and waited quite patiently. She is obviously an experienced beggar. Our breakfast was delicious, especially the chocolate croissants.
While we were waiting for our food to arrive, Tara, the activities manager stopped by to say good morning. We chatted for a few moments and she asked us if we had heard anything about our luggage. We told her we had not and that we were hoping that it would come today. About 10 minutes later, she was back with the news that our bags were at the hotel and being delivered to our bungalow as we spoke!
We went back to our bungalow and there were our bags. After some celebratory unpacking, Andrea decided to do some snorkeling. The sun was high in the sky and the water was very clear. Wade threw bread off the lower deck to attract the fish and Andrea was treated to HD Fish TV. Amazing. Wade jumped in later with our digital underwater camera and here are some shots of the fish right off of our deck:
We named this dude Cheeto based on his coloring:
We then spent the rest of the day kicking it at our bungalow. After watching the sunset, we showered and got dressed for dinner. Around 6:30pm, we went to the hotel restaurant to have our romantic beach dinner. We were escorted to the water’s edge where a table for two was set up with candles and tiki torches and plenty of fresh flowers. We had some Moet & Chandon champagne while waiting for our first course. As we had skipped lunch in anticipation of a big meal, we were pretty hungry at this point.
The first course was practically a meal in itself. Our server, Midi, brought out a huge platter of fish of all kinds: lobster tails, yellowtail carpaccio, raw oysters, ahi tuna sashimi (so good!), huge shrimp, ahi tuna rolls made with fresh papaya, and last but not least, poisson cru. The second course consisted of more fish with the centerpiece being freshly-caught red snapper. Finally, our dessert consisted of chocolate lava cakes with house made coconut ice cream and lemon granite. We were so stuffed after all of this food, we felt like the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka.
Overall, it was an excellent first full day at the Hotel Bora Bora. More to come.
2 comments:
What a wonderful honeymoon you seem to be having! Even with the lost luggage... hopefully the little delay is the worst you have to deal with. You're in my thoughts. Now I'm off to collapse-- it was a long trip home from Colorado today. (And, I have the 24 and Heros finale's to watch :)
Love, Edie
That view is just spectacular! It looks like you're having fabulous weather, too. Does your luggage get frequent flier miles for the extra trip to L.A.?
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