Day 6 - Aitutaki

Today is our last day on Aitutaki. I enjoyed my last breakfast of banana and coconut pancakes. We had to check out at 10 am so they stored our bags and we had all day to wait and wait until 6 pm to fly out. Just our luck it finally decided to rain today. They are in a drought over there and everything is drying out and starting to die. They finally got a good day of rain. So with no room to wait in, we grabbed an umbrella and walked into town. We made it to the market before it closed at noon. One or two stores were open. I think everybody closed up early due to the rain. We bought some t shirts for the boys and a hat for Craig. Then we walked over to the market and bought a drink. There were some tables outside so we took a seat. We thought we would wait for the rain to let up. We waited for over an hour. We finally decided it was light enough we could head back. Of course after we started out, it started to pour and we were sopping wet. We stopped at our favorite little burger shack (of course it was closed) and sat under the roof to get out of the rain. We hung out for about a half hour and then headed back towards the resort.

We ended up walking to another resort to get some lunch. Their prices were only a few dollars cheaper but at least they had some other options. Craig had a curry wrap and I had a quesadilla. Interesting lunch. The quesadilla was a flat bread with some tomato sauce spread on it with some chicken and mozarella cheese in between. It had a very sweet taste. But it was good. Craig's curry wrap was really good too. When we got done with lunch (It always takes a good hour or two- you are on island time) it was dry enough that we walked back down the beach.

Finally it was 6 pm and time to go catch the bus to take us to the airport. We headed out with a rainbow in the sky. We had a 4 hour layover in Rarotonga. And with the new security measures for international flights going into the US, this was going to be a long night. We had to have every bag and carry on bag hand searched. Then we each had to have a complete pat down. About the time we should have boarded our flight, they called half the plane back to security to redo everything. OHHHHHHH. We were tired and we are LATE. Finally about an hour after scheduled take off, we were on our way home.