The end of the long holidays!

Yesterday it was back to school....
The kids were dutifully by the side of the road, ready and raring to go! Amai in his last year of kindergarten, Heimana in CM1 and Mato already in her second year of highschool in 5eme. It's gone real quick, but a lot has happened!

The guest house has been busy as ever, the whales arrived early this year and the season already seems to have been in swing for a while. I counted seven on my way to the store yesterday!



There was also the heiva to distract us with a couple of weeks of festivities. This is one of my favourite events, not as glam as the dancing, but worth a look! Starch weighing - heaviest taro/bananas/tapioca roots, in different categories!
There was Heimana's birthday lost in the middle of it all, along with the horse race and our Hawaiian group.

 The week of taro related and cultural exchanges were pretty intense, and Viriamu was in his element as the taro master! Here's hoping we'll make it over to visit them in a year or two, to see how it's done in Hawaii.

Mahie caused a storm by pouding taro, an activity exclusively reserved for Rurutu men.....those radical Hawaiian wahines.

 Then the rest was a blur of holiday rush and translating - Air Tahiti Nui celebrates its twentieth very soon, and boy do I know a lot about it all now!

So, here we are on the other side, looking forwards to an outing to Tahiti for our biannual salon.