Happy Birthday to Me

We arrived in the Cook Islands just before 6am and checked into Club Raro in Rarotonga and by 730 we were basking into the sun and checking out our beach which was a bit rockier than the pictures showed.  By 10 it was time for lunch and a nap.  Craziest thing about our resort there were chickens everywhere!  Sugar ants in our room too.  After lunch it was time for a nap for some of us while others hung out at the pool until dinner at the night market.  Taxis travel on 'island time' so some tourists heard we needed a ride and all 7 of us squished into their car!  Marla, Cynde and I got some weird looks from cars behind as we sat in the back of the hatch.  The things you do on holidays...after a meal of smoked marlin crepes and then BBQ chicken we headed back and hitched a ride with a lovely Island couple.  At the hotel we watched the waves and chatted with a sheep shearer and his girlfriend who shared my birth day. It poured down with rain and we headed to bed.  It was a great day to turn 55!

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