Day 4 Addendum, Monday August 28
After cleaning and preparing to sail tomorrow, we entertained some of Xavier’s French friends he has meet over the past two months, Vatea and his wife Sophie brought us a very traditional French meal of cheeses, meats, pate, bread and wine. They brought fresh kiwi for dessert and taught us the “correct” way to eat it, cut it in half and scoop the fruit out of the skin with a spoon. Who knew that it could be so much easier than slicing and peeling it. Vatea will be joining us tomorrow for the leg to Maupiti.
Lastly a curious fact shared by another of Xavier’s local friends is that all the shops and businesses close at 3 pm local time. Carol and I thought it was just an extension of Europeans, mostly in Spain, who close up shop at 3 pm (for siesta) and re-open around 6 pm. However here in Tahiti they do not re-open, why? Because at 4 pm the television program Dallas is broadcast and apparently the entire country is obsessed. Carol and I always wondered why there was a large cop unity of Polynesians living in the Dallas area. Now we know why!
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