Lots of Turtles You Can Swim With

When I left off, we were going nowhere fast for our honeymoon. I hate to fly and didn't feel like taking a road trip to the nearest Waffle House or Cracker Barrel (although I'm not above that, no sir) and calling it a day. We were in a stalemate, me all panicky and height-fearing, and Groomy, all rational and wanting-to-go-on-a-nice-honeymooning (I mean, really, who does he think he is??). All the close destinations were either hurricane hazards at that time of year or just didn't thrill one or both of us. That was, until I stumbled upon this little beauty on TripAdvisor:

Captioned "Lots of turtles you can swim with"

Ignoring the obvious preposition issue, I knew this was where we had to go. I mean, look at those turtles. There are lots, and apparently you can swim with them! Right there, I'm a happy camper. Also, these turtles happen to be in an amazing destination - Bora Bora. Not too shabby, eh? (yes, now I'm Canadian. Just go with it, ok?)

I know, I know, it's a pretty long flight. Almost 14 hours, split between 2 planes, and none of it will be first class. Airlines are apparently pretty stingy with their upgrades and they wanted something like the cost of our entire vacation to stick us with the beautiful people up front. However, we'll be flying a red eye out of LAX and, from what I've read, Air Tahiti does a bang-up job in coach class. Also, I think Groomy is planning to drug me with Ambien and red wine. I'll pretend I don't know for now and con him into buying me a Kindle for the plane ride.

We'll actually be splitting our trip between two islands, Moorea and Bora Bora. We'll be staying at the Hilton in Moorea in one of those spiffy overwater bungalows:

Hopefully watching sunsets that look like this:In Bora Bora, we're at the Four Seasons:Umm, wow.

Our room will look something like this:

Apparently the bathtub looks out onto the water. Sweet!

Needless to say, we are so excited about what looks like the vacation of a lifetime. Assuming I get through the flight without any emotional or physical scars, it should be just that.