Our vacation after our vacation. I mean, we’ve been sooooo busy! We really needed a break, you know?
This was also when we lived March 20th/21st twice- once in Auckland/Hobbiton(!!) and once in Tahiti. Kind of trippy!
I don’t even remember what we did the first couple of days in Tahiti. Not much of anything, I think. I know at some point we went into the market in Papeete and looked at pearls and such. We also went to the Pearl Museum, which was pretty interesting actually- the biology behind the creation of the pearl, the history of the pearl trade, how to determine quality, etc. It’s funny- the pearls to native Tahitians were sort of like gold to the native Peruvians- something they had in abundance, used in decoration and jewelry, but overall not that big of a deal. Until the Europeans came along and went crazy over that shit. Thankfully there wasn’t a giant massacre here over it like there was in Peru, but let’s face they facts- they speak French here now. Oh those white people and their love of shiny things. It’s pretty, yeah, but damn! Calm yourselves.
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