Day 4 - Rarotonga

Let me just start by saying how I love this weather. It is low 80's everyday, humid, and brief 10-15 minute showers in the afternoon. I love to be warm. This is heaven for me. Today was our big fishing day. We had a guide to take us out for deep sea fishing. We met Brenden at the wharf at 5 AM. We didn't have much luck for quite a while. Then we got a bite and I got to reel it in. It was a tuna (probably 8 or 9 pounds). It's the biggest fish I've ever caught. Then a bit later we got another bite. Craig's turn. He started reeling. Brenden said it was going to be bigger than what I caught. Craig battled and battled. Then Brenden started swearing like crazy and pointing to the water. So I looked in and saw a HUGE blue fish. There was a marlin right behind the boat and Brenden said there must be one on the line. He was so excited and Craig was getting tired. Then all of a sudden it got real easy to reel. Craig was afraid his BIG fish had gotten away. After reeling in the line we could see where the line had been frayed from the marlin gnawing on it to get away. It was gone. No big fish for Craig. No other bites the rest of the morning. Just another day of fishing. We did have fun and no one got sick. Yeah! Then we decided we better go to the marked and get some groceries since the island shuts down for Christmas day, Boxing day (the day after xmas), and then it would be Sunday. Not such a good time to go on vacation there. We bough some chips, bread, nutella, jam, pop, and ice-cream. It came to $38 dollars. The most money I've ever spent on such few groceries. The prices were as follows: chips - $5, bread - $4, nutella - $7, jam - $5, pop - $10 for 2 1.5 liter bottles, and ice cream - $5. But at least we would have Christmas dinner. For christmas eve dinner we went to the restaurant next door (overlooking the beach) and had a fancy, expensive dinner. They thought we were strange we didn't want free bubbles with dinner. The appetizers were gross (mostly fishy things) but dinner was fantastic. I had turkey and Craig had ham. Then we had a yummy plate of goodies for dessert. This is the most expensive dinner we have ever had. Probably the last too. But it was romantic!