On Thursday night we had an fantastic evening with our Tahitian friends (I feel like saying “family” now, we had such a warm welcome and have grown so close). They prepared a lovely, traditional Tahitian dinner. We prepared some of our own Swiss contributions (une tresse – ein Butterzopf in German – and a chocolate mousse), although these we left for our hosts to remember us by.
It was with a heavy heart that we headed for the airport. Our flight from Tahiti to New Zealand left at 1:30am on Friday the 13th, but as we crossed the International Date Line on our journey we arrived at 6:30am on Saturday October 14th in Auckland. How about that as a strategy for minimising bad luck? 🙂
One of my oldest friends, Sean, picked us up at the airport. Sean and I have been friends since high school, but were acquaintances growing up (we went to the same church before then). He moved to Auckland around a decade ago with his wife, Sharon (who is from here), and their 2 kids (they’ve…