FIRST WEEK on Rarotonga, Cook Islands

0:00 we made [Music] it we start week five by packing up from huini to go to Cook Islands you guys ready to go y driving away one last time we took the last flight out of huahini which meant we had to stay one night in PTI before we flew out to cook Island the next [Music]

0:58 morning after getting our passport stamp and grabbing our bags we got our SIM cards and our car rental and then we were off to our new place on the opposite side of the car sure am how's this going to go it's going to go fantastic it's been a little while whoa there's cars in my Lane there's a car coming I would have drove down that road if uh there cars weren't there sorry I'm overly on the wrong side

1:50 [Music] what do you think it's nice after doing a quick walkr and dropping off our bags we went out for lunch and then to the grocery store the kids were excited to find that we had lots of egg options and of course we decided to drive all the way around the island to get back to our place

2:36 the next morning we were off to explore the beach just down our driveway [Music] [Music] [Music]

3:22 after some smirking we went to another Beach called m [Music] after the beach we decided to hit the night markets to have some [Music] dinner we also enjoyed a beautiful sunset and then the next morning we're up making pancakes today's mission is getting some food and also

4:10 refilling the water Jack cuz the water here in R Rarotonga Rarotonga is not safe to drink from the tap so we need to go to the refill station to get new water we went to the water Factory to get our water are refilled but we did find out later that you can exchange these at some local grocery stores but at the refill station you do get a value card after that we went to Ocean fresh to get some fresh fish and then we were headed back to the grocery store to get our weeks worth of food now that we really knew what we needed we are currently hanging out the beach by our place cuz Eric is doing some Dive Master courses so that

4:58 is his big for this month is that he's getting certified as a die fasor so the kids and I will have lots of time where he is out diving and we are just hanging out at a beach somewhere or doing school depending on the day and the [Music] time we watch watch the sunrise the next morning at the beach by us and then we were off to Marty [Music]

5:51 [Music] Beach later that afternoon the kids and I walked the beach to go spy on Eric while he did his rescue [Music] [Music] course the next day we headed off to AOA Beach go jump in no why because I don't want to what's wrong my B let me see it's a pretty good one today sh Sun out the bugs like

6:38 you I hate bugs how warm is the water guys the sun went away now it's cold yeah [Music] [Music] [Music]

8:11 then we came back home and walked our local Beach hides in the Rocks yeah well underneath them in the mud do you think he turns into those fat ones we saw on the Rocks the other day yeah oh yeah probably dad found it with his foot that's cool in the sand huh the first week we have discovered is always interesting it's actually the first couple days when we get to a new place because first off we don't know the area and we also don't know what our place is actually going to be like what things that they have what pans look like what silverware dishes all that stuff and then it's you know getting to the place and then going to the grocery

8:56 store and the grocery store is always interesting CU you never know what you're going to get like what's going to be there what's going to be available and so the first couple days I feel like was the first two days is this like limbo in the new place trying to get things situated trying to figure things out trying to wash everything that needs to be washed cuz dishes are not clean all that fun stuff so but we're here it's we're at a week and it's something that we are loving is that we are super close to the beach we can walk the beach and so we have been walking the beach every day and it's so nice we

9:44 love it there's the ocean and that's our driveway something that we haven't loved is the bugs and this is a killing a cockroach [Music] join us next week to explore more of Cook Islands