Day 5 - Aitutaki

Happy New Year from Aitutaki. Once again it is another holiday on a small island. Nothing is open and no tours are running. Today was spent kayaking around the lagoon. At least today, I felt better. We kayaked all the way up to the airport and back. Then it was time for a nap.

In the afternoon we biked into town to find the church. It was an interesting chapel. Instead of one big building there were lots of small buildings for classrooms and they even had one building that was for the missionaries to live in. The baptismal font was outside and they had a banana farm in the back. It was pretty cool. We especially loved the sign that said NO smoking,drinking,alcohol,littering, or swearing. We laughed and laughed. On the way home we stopped at the market and bought a tub of chocolate ice-cream.(After paying $8 for ice-cream, I won't complain about blue bell being expensive). The ice-cream over there is so creamy.

We had lunch at the resort restaurant. At $25 for a chicken sandwich we only did this twice. But today there were no other options. So we had linner (late lunch-early dinner) to tide us over for the day.