September Rush

We're just emerging out from under a crazy few weeks, chock full of guests. It's always like this in september what with the whales being here combined with the school holidays in Tahiti, but this year with the added bonus of a young baby in the house and jealous sister, it's been quite a season! It's actually been a really good season for us and the house has been at max capacity for the past few weeks. We celebrated the end of the big rush with a ma'a tahiti (tahitian oven). It's been a while since we did one, so it was fun, I always enjoy the kind of festive side of entertaining a whole bunch of people (we were 18 at table yesterday) and the tahitian oven is a little bit like Christmas, the night before you bury all the food in the ground and hey presto the next day you get to dig it all up and unwrap it, then stuff yourself silly and get a bit tipsy on tropical punch! After all the excitement I'm looking forward to things calming down a little bit.....we all deserve a bit of a rest!