Roi over Valentine's Day

We went up to Roi with some friends the weekend before Valentine's Day for a little getaway and because they put on a dinner.  Here are a few pictures from our time on Roi! 

A look at the local wildlife!  There are wild chickens on Roi that run around and wait for you to feed them.  Not sure how wild they are, but pretty fun when they start chasing you on your golf cart, hoping you will throw some food at them!

Here is a picture of us at the Velentine's dinner.  It was at the scuba shack on Roi, which was very nice.

This is the scuba shack all decorated out for the dinner.  There were waiters and everything!  We certainly enjoyed the "eating out" experience and had steak and crab legs which were delicious.  We were very glad to have gone to the dinner.

Table settings at the dinner.

This picture is of 8th Island, which is where we took a boat to to snorkel while we were on Roi.  Not that many people visit it, so it was very interesting to watch the fish respond to people in the water.  It was very beautiful, to say the least!  This picture was from our anchoring spot and we snorkeled all around the island and the reef connecting it.

Long Time, No Updates

It has certainly been far to long since we updated the blog, so we will attempt to start adding things more regularly again!  The next several days should see some updates from the last month or so, starting with Today's update about a trip we took to Roi-Namur the weekend before Valentine's Day.  The pictures in this blog show the views during the flight up to Roi.  We will be updating with our time on Roi, Mindi's Birthday, as well as some other stuff that has been going on the last several weeks.

Here we are waiting in the terminal for the flight to Roi. 

This picture was taken right after take off and shows the North side of the island looking up the East Reef.  The island sure looks small from the air and we always like getting a view of it from the flight.  The part you are looking at is the residential area of the island

This shot looks back over the whole island from the air.  You can see the soccer field and track beside the school on the right side of the picture, just below the tip of the wing.  We live just a little left of center in this picture. 

Here is a shot of one of the outer islands from the plane trip to Roi.  It is about a 30 minute ride and gives you some cool views of the rest of the Atoll.  The color of the water shows the depth and how quickly the reef wall drops off to the depths of the Pacific!  This little island is about halfway up the West reef and looks pretty nice for camping or snorkeling!

Here is another shot out the window of the plane on our way to roi.  You can see the reef pretty clearly running North to South with islands popping up every so often.

This picture didn't turn out the best through the plane window, but it does at least show a pretty good view of some of the islands of the atoll.  Most of them are completely uninhabited.  Snorkeling or diving on this island would be interested, because the fish and sharks would have no idea what a human is and would probably come pretty close out of curiousity!

More updates will be coming soon!  Hope everyone is doing well and we miss and love you all!  You are all in our thoughts and prayers!