Phew. Today was pretty awesome. I am so tired right now that I am dozing off in front of my laptop.. but I need to get this post made now before I goto sleep. This am I woke up early, bought bread for Tim, and then went to work from the porch. At around 7:45 Maricel picked us up and drove us downtown. We stopped at a chinese owned grocery store to grab something to eat for breakfast. The owners and workers ignored us as we waited to pay for our items. A line started to form, but the workers just kept working on some plastic thing. Mat blurts out, hey cmon, your store is already expensive enough I don't want to wait and pay your high prices.. then the lady came right over. The Tahitians behind us laughed.
We got to OGs in about a hour and a half I think, traffic was slow, and it is only one lane for 99% of the drive from the end of the road. We got to OGs place and were stoked to see him. I don't think I've seen him for at least two years. OG is my first friend that I met who is from Tahiti, and he also invited me out here 5 years ago for two weeks.
We hung out here for a while, talking and catching up. I checked out his house's remodel. It looks amazing. So well made and total craftsmanship. High quality, heavy hardwood doors and trim. The floors are nice slate (i think) and the kitchen is very nice too. All the bathrooms are amazing too. He said it took over a year for the workers to get it going, and they are still doing stuff here and there. I played with his two huge dogs, boba and snoop. Boba is a beast. when he barks he sounds like a monster, not a dog. No one will ever set foot on OGs property, his dogs are simply too scary looking haha. But they are sweet dogs and love attention. Soon after we got here I setup for work and started at it again. it got kind of hot so mat and I jumped in the pool to cool down. At this point we got a message from Tim that it was dumping rain at the end of the road. It hadn't rained that hard for a month I guess. I really lucked out on weather this trip, so far. about a hour later the rain had reached us. It was a downpour.. we decided to go swim since it was raining, and that was awesome. The rain made your head cold, but your body was so warm in the pool. such a weird feeling to go underwater to warm up. We got some fun pics of us hanging out in the awesome pool. The view from OGs backyard is unreal. I actually have to large prints of his view printed on canvas at my house back home.
I had a google hangout video conference with my mom and my sister. I was able to show them my view from the video chat stream. It looks pretty insane here at sunsets, I watched most of it from the lawn.
We went out to the market to grab some lunch and then I went back to work. We hung out for a while, just talking and laughing. OG's parents were down at the pool guest house and chill area down there at the bottom of the log, and OG's gf had just showed up after she got off work. She went right to making dinner which is awesome because she is a very good cook. She cooked Rhino fish and some other fish as well. I don't know what the desert she made was called but OMG it was delicious So many layers of awesomeness. I wish I could cook half as well as she can haha.
We all ate dinner together as a big group. I couldn't participate in most of the conversations because they were speaking in french, however I can eat so that kept me busy. After dinner we hung out a little bit more and then I got to work on my pics and here I am writing this blog. I have to get up at 5:30 again tomorrow for my 6am local time meeting... ouch!
nite.
We got to OGs in about a hour and a half I think, traffic was slow, and it is only one lane for 99% of the drive from the end of the road. We got to OGs place and were stoked to see him. I don't think I've seen him for at least two years. OG is my first friend that I met who is from Tahiti, and he also invited me out here 5 years ago for two weeks.
We hung out here for a while, talking and catching up. I checked out his house's remodel. It looks amazing. So well made and total craftsmanship. High quality, heavy hardwood doors and trim. The floors are nice slate (i think) and the kitchen is very nice too. All the bathrooms are amazing too. He said it took over a year for the workers to get it going, and they are still doing stuff here and there. I played with his two huge dogs, boba and snoop. Boba is a beast. when he barks he sounds like a monster, not a dog. No one will ever set foot on OGs property, his dogs are simply too scary looking haha. But they are sweet dogs and love attention. Soon after we got here I setup for work and started at it again. it got kind of hot so mat and I jumped in the pool to cool down. At this point we got a message from Tim that it was dumping rain at the end of the road. It hadn't rained that hard for a month I guess. I really lucked out on weather this trip, so far. about a hour later the rain had reached us. It was a downpour.. we decided to go swim since it was raining, and that was awesome. The rain made your head cold, but your body was so warm in the pool. such a weird feeling to go underwater to warm up. We got some fun pics of us hanging out in the awesome pool. The view from OGs backyard is unreal. I actually have to large prints of his view printed on canvas at my house back home.
I had a google hangout video conference with my mom and my sister. I was able to show them my view from the video chat stream. It looks pretty insane here at sunsets, I watched most of it from the lawn.
We went out to the market to grab some lunch and then I went back to work. We hung out for a while, just talking and laughing. OG's parents were down at the pool guest house and chill area down there at the bottom of the log, and OG's gf had just showed up after she got off work. She went right to making dinner which is awesome because she is a very good cook. She cooked Rhino fish and some other fish as well. I don't know what the desert she made was called but OMG it was delicious So many layers of awesomeness. I wish I could cook half as well as she can haha.
We all ate dinner together as a big group. I couldn't participate in most of the conversations because they were speaking in french, however I can eat so that kept me busy. After dinner we hung out a little bit more and then I got to work on my pics and here I am writing this blog. I have to get up at 5:30 again tomorrow for my 6am local time meeting... ouch!
nite.
