Papeete, Tahiti

^{An interesting day to say the least!  Richard is now sick with a sinus infection.  After feeling absolutely awful last night and burning up with fever, I gave Richard the option of seeing the ship’s doctor or going ashore to see what we could find there.  I went down to the 4th floor and the waiting room for the ship’s doctor was full!   I must say I’ve never been there before and hope to never go there again.  We left the ship and went straight to the pharmacy where a nice lady told us that there was an excellent doctor just next door.  She told us that their over the counter meds were pretty lacking and that she stocks up on Mucinex when she visits the States.  So we heeded her advise and went to the ATM to get French Polynesian dollars and paid Dr. Carpenter (a young French doc that looked like he played a doctor on TV) $36 to find out that Richard was running a fever and needed antibiotics, steroids, and a pain/fever reducer.   Back to the pharmacy to fill the scripts and now all is much better!  Forget insurance, this was great!}  

^{Richard went back to the ship and I went shopping!!!!!    A win-win for us both.   I may not like Hawaiian music but I do love Tahitian pearls!   Mid-afternoon I returned to the ship to check on Richard and to eat lunch.  He felt like getting off the ship for a while so we went to the farmers’ market, found a restaurant with wifi, purchased a coffee and checked our email.  We walked around until time to reboard the ship.}