Today was another quiet day. It's windy outside, but not too windy to stop someone from having their canoe breakfast! Quite a production that draws everyone onto their balconies with their cameras, phones and iPads. The people in the bungalow next to us have had a hire car for the last couple of days for them and their three grown up children (celebrating mum's 50th birthday), but we came here for a very quiet resort holiday, a novelty for us. So what was left of the day, after our leisurely late breakfast, was spent on the massive window seat (sofa), enjoying the view and reading/doing sudokus. We timed our trip with the beginning of the shoulder season. November the first marks the beginning of their wet season, and it always rains on that day (so we were told by a local). At 4pm they're having a Polynesian festival type of thing, with the opening of the oven in the ground (like a luau, or a hangi), dancing and demonstrations. Tonight's dinner will be a Polynesian festival, according to the daily activity sheet that's left outside our bungalow each evening. Sometime later: so we went to watch the opening of the Polynesian pit oven and they were telling us all about the vegies they cooked in it. After a while the standing became tedious and we decided to wander back to our bungalow when a woman stopped in the middle of the walkway and said "Colleen?" Oh my gosh - it was Lorraine! I used to work with her at Penrith South 11 years ago! I could not believe it. It turns out she and her husband Gary are three bungalows down from us and we can see them from our front balcony! Talk about a small world. They only arrived today, and we're leaving tomorrow - so much to catch up on! Tonight's dinner was the Polynesian dinner and was somewhat disappointing - the only one so far. Even the resort cat wasn't at dinner, he stayed up at reception.