Last time we left you we were just entering the "Big Event"-Vaka Eiva is the biggest outrigger paddling event on the island. Teams from all over were here to compete in the week long event. The town was a BUZZ and there was stuff to do everywhere. The owners of our resort are paddlers and Paul even came in 3rd on one of the mens events! Chrissy our restaurant manager also did VERY well in here women's events. Last year she was the first local to finish in one of her big events. As you can see...we are VERY proud of our friends!! : ) 
We've been making some great friends here. Frances and his wife take us to all the good local spots. We went for the best fish and chips on the island at the Fishing Club, where Trevor and Frances kept getting their butts kicked at pool playing against one of the local Doctors. Dr Carmen Pool Shark as he is now known to us! 
The worst part about being a long-term stay at a resort is the fact that every week our friends leave us!!! : ( It's especially hard to say goodbye to all the little kids! Our play buddies in the pool up and leave us at the end of every week! We've had some good times and have got some great new iPod games thanks to the wee ones!! Here's a pic of some of them playing by the pool. What a better way to entertain both the kids and adults than with good old fashioned Crab races! That's what they were doing here with about 7 little crabs they collected off the beach.
Slowly but surely we are figuring out the best places to eat on the island. Trev's favorite is Palace Burger, where they serve the biggest burger on the island. Everywhere has great food we are deffinitely getting spoiled with that! The fish dishes are the best. Ika Ma'ata is my favorite from our restaurant in the resort. I think today we are stopping by the fish store to pick up some fresh caught tuna for steaks tonight...Mmmmmm.....As you can imagine, i'm very busy here and have to get on with my day. I think on deck is watching the plane land from New Zealand ( a favoritre local thing cause you stand at the end of the runway and it looks like the plane is going to land on your head!!! Watch out for the jet blast though!!)...I've got to go to the book store to see if they have any good reads and probably some pool time!!!
I'll sign off with this video of a guy here getting some coconuts for us to drink....which we did later...with just a "splash" of Island rum!! (vid upload didn't work..sorry...upload speeds here are too slow...but I'll save it for home : ) )
Oh and don't worry about Sampson....he's doing well...feeding off our leftovers and I even saw him catch a mouse or rat (I try not to think about the latter). He's living a cats dream for sure!
Hope it's warming up there....we've been entertaining people with tales of the north and the daily wind chill estimation!
Wish you were here!!!!
C & T Hunzo!
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