New Years Celebrations

Ia ora na i te matahiti api 2012! Here's wishing us all a happy and healthy 2012.

OK, so it's nearly the Chinese New Year, but it's never too late to blog! It's true I have been away from the blog for a bit, busy with family and guests, but now it's my holiday time...... Matotea is back to school, Tuati and the rest of the family are gradually dispersing after their annual holidays. The new year here in Rurutu has got off to an unpromising start, with almost continuous rain since Boxing Day. 

An unpromising start to the day of Avera's Tere, jan 6th

 Our annual 'TERE' festivities, the island tour en masse was rather spoilt by the rain, though there was still a decent showing and this year the tourist committee decided to offer a prize for the most beautiful car, and I was one of the judges for Avera. Every year people decorate there cars as part of the tour, with flowers and foliage and fruits - it can get to be quite impressive. Here are a few of the best from our Tere.

Today the sky is blue, but I'm not entirely convinced the deluge has finished......I'd best hurry and hang some washing out to dry, at last!

Tattie Tracey

 

Tattie Tracey and her family have just left us, after a weeks'  holiday here, and life just seems
that little bit duller than before (but not for long, we have 16 members of Viriamu's family arriving from New Caledonia....tomorrow!).

It was a fun old New Year that we had here with Tattie Tracey and her family.......

Matotea, in particular just loved having the kids around......and Tattie Tracey is a big favourite too....

It was a much anticipated visit and Matotea even showed up at the airport to greet them dressed as a princess, for a royal welcome!

Ia ora na i te matahiti api 2011!

Wishing you all a prosperous and healthy new year, full of love and
happiness.......from all of us here in Rurutu!

 
More postings of our festive season shennanigans to come.........

Ia ora na i te matahiti api 2010!

Happy New Year from us all in Rurutu! We saw in the New Year, but only just - it's somehow not so exciting any more now that we have the little kids and now that I'd give anything for a proper night's sleep. Since our trip to NZ, Heimana has become a super erratic sleeper, maybe it's her teeth, or maybe she's just plain mean! At the moment she wakes up about five or six times in the night, and after six months I no longer find it amusing!!!!

Anyway we made the effort to stay up, fortified by our crate full of oysters (ten dozen) and imported champers....We particularly appreciated the oysters, as getting them here in time was quite a deal. We had ordered them while we were back in Tahiti in early december, and had been assured by the store that they would be able to deliver in time, then on the 30th (the last day for a flight) we got a call from the store telling us that our oysters had arrived from NZ but that there was no room on the Tahiti-Rurutu flight so they would stay at the airport until the 1st!!!! Why they hadn't pre-booked the freight, as we had suggested, I don't know....anyway not ones to give up, we called around Viriamu's friends, and were super lucky that the head of Air Tahiti's travel agency, very kindly pulled some strings on our behalf, so good old AirTahiti came to the rescue - Mauruuru roa Muriel!


Matotea put on her party frock, and we took her into town to see the Christmas lights, to while away the time....

She thought it was just marvelous....the whale light was her absolute favorite, but she was a bit disappointed that we couldn't lift her up to touch it!

We also bust out the sparklers, in an attempt to get in the festive mood..

...anyway here we are arrived in 2010 wishing you all health, happiness and prosperity!