Scooter Tour of Moorea, part 1

We had to walk from our resort to the airport, no small effort, to rent a scooter. We were told that getting a scooter was the best way to see around (literally) the whole island. Beautiful day, a couple of stops for pictures, it was really fun.

Back to the fun stuff...

This week I forced myself to finish my grad school readings and postings for this week before I spent time on any of my own hobbies. Since neither my school work nor my hobbies take place while Aaron is awake...well there you go. That is the same issue I have during the school year. In any case, my work for this week is done, however, I have looming over me like a giant cloud my MAJOR research paper that is due in three weeks. I will be starting that...soon. In any case, for the rest of naptime and tonight at least, I can scrap and blog! Hooray!

A Bushel and a Layout

Fishers came over yesterday for playtime and a crab feast! We were also lucky to get a visit from Ricky and Lainey while they are in town.

Tahitian Sunrise

Our first morning on the island of Moorea, we couldn't sleep past 4 am...time difference! We walked bleary-eyed out of our overwater bungalow and saw a gorgeous Tahitian sunrise.

Next Honeymoon layout

This is SO much fun for me. I love getting the chance to do some scrapping everyday during Aaron's nap, provided he takes one. Today is looking good again! It was the morning of a million errands...lots of things to take care of out of the house. Stay tuned for some pictures of our crab feast with the Fishers!

Our first day in Tahiti, and our only day on the big island. We had just one night and one morning in a lovely hotel before moving on to our tiny island. It was our first taste of the paradise Tahiti had to offer us for the next 8 days!

A Honeymoon Album!

Waiting for our flight at LAX

I am really excited to be finally working on a scrapbook for our honeymoon. It was the best trip we have ever experienced and deserves to get the best scrapping I have to offer! Tonight after Aaron went to bed I did these first layouts while watching "The Last King of Scotland" which was very interesting and completely unrelated to a honeymoon in Tahiti. Aaron's naptime was successful today, possibly thanks to promises of watching "meerkats," as he calls it, only if he stayed in his bed and took a nap. Ah, bribery.

Arrival and first night in Tahiti

A little play, a little work

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Yesterday Courts and Aaron and I made our first trip to the lake of the summer. We can walk there, but yesterday we drove and only stayed for about an hour and a half before Aaron wanted to come home and eat a sandwich burger. Aaron spent the first part of our trip digging, which he called "shoveling" and the second half swimming. The water temperature was perfect! I have a summer goal to try to do something outside with Aaron everyday, preferably before naptime so that he will actually go to sleep! We are sometimes combining his playtime with our exercise. After a very vigorous walk/jog yesterday morning I am getting a slow start today and we will be sticking to the backyard.

We also began one of Aaron's summer "homeschooling" initiatives, tracing. I got some tracing books and cards to use with him this summer, some letters, numbers, and just drawing lines and shapes. Yesterday we traced for the first time in his tracing book and today is the first time we tried tracing letters. I am amazed at how well he did on this and had to take pictures of them. I hope they are big enough in this layout to show how well he traced. We are definitely going to keep practicing this skill!