{"id":136,"date":"2007-06-12T06:03:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/hannah-and-mia-arrive\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:03:12","slug":"hannah-and-mia-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Hannah and Mia Arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ready<\/a>June 10th, 2007
\nWe are a week behind in keeping up our blog, but it will have to
\nwait, as the most important news is now that Hannah and her
\nfriend Mia have arrived safely. We picked them up in the nearby
\nharbor of Hakehau today where there were dropped off after a 2
\nhour taxi ride from the airport. They were scheduled to arrive
\ntoday, but as of yesterday, we did not think they would be able
\nto make it. Yesterday it seemed that everything that could go
\nwrong was going wrong. Mia flew to Chicago Friday night so that
\nshe and Hannah could catch a flight together on Saturday morning
\nto L.A. – and from there to Tahiti – and finally to catch the
\nonce a day flight to Nuka Hiva. They stayed in an airport hotel
\non Friday night and the woman at the desk there stupidly told
\nthem that they only needed to get to the airport an hour before
\nthe 8:15 a.m. flight. Apparently there had been big storms on
\nthe east coast the day before and when they and about 1,000
\nother people arrived at the airport they found lines snaking out
\nthe door for Southwest airlines – and a lot of swearing going
\non. By the time they got to the check-in counter their tickets had been given away and they then had to wait on stand-by for the next flight ( 3 hours later), which they also did not get onto. They finally got onto the 1:30 p.m. flight,
\nwhich would not get them to L.A. in time to get the flight to
\nTahiti. They would be able to get a much later flight, but that
\nflight was arriving in Tahiti only 40 minutes before the once a
\nday flight to Nuku Hiva. We received an e-mail from Hannah
\ntelling us that they probably would miss their plane, and when
\nwe talked to Mia’s parents the story got worse as it appeared
\nthat if they missed the flight to Nuka Hiva on Sunday, the
\nearliest they would be able to get on a plane would be
\nThursday!!<\/p>\n

Needless to say we were all a bit crazed – plus
\nfrustrated as we can only communicate by e-mail and by satellite
\nphone. We had several conversations with Mia’s parents, and
\ntried to make phone calls to Air Tahiti to try to see what could
\nbe done – while Mia’s folks spent hours and hours doing the same
\nthing from their end, beginning in the morning with the
\nSouthwest Airlines people. By the time we went to bed Saturday
\nnight it looked like there was little chance that the girls
\nwould get to Nuka Hiva and our already short time with the girls
\nwould be truncated from 10 days to just 6. We did not like the
\nthought of the girls spending 3 or 4 nights in a hotel in Tahiti
\nwhile waiting to get onto a plane to Nuku Hiva. We had made
\nplans for a taxi to get the girls from the airport in Nuku Hiva
\nand bring them to the next bay over from us called Hatiheu. Hatiheu has a town and a road – although it is a rough and bumpy 2 hour drive from the airport. The bay in which we are anchored, Anaho Bay, has no roads at all. We stay in Anaho because is well protected from ocean swells, which is not the case for Hateheu Bay. We had arranged for a taxi well in advance, as we were told it is difficult to find someone at the airport to drive you anywhere besides the main town which is at the opposite end of the island. Thinking that the girls could not possibly make it in, we cancelled the taxi.<\/p>\n

Much to our surprise, however, on Sunday morning we got up and
\nchecked our e-mail right away and found out from Mia’s parents
\nthat the plane from Tahiti had arrived an hour earlier than
\nscheduled, and that the girls did get on the plane to Nuku Hiva,
\nand that they should be arriving shortly. We quickly called the
\ntaxi driver – but could only leave a voice message for him – and
\npulled up anchor to get to the next bay to be there when and
\nif the girls arrived. Our friends on Intiaq, and another French
\nboat Caramba, both offered to help by following up with the taxi
\ndriver by phone, and also by giving us a mobile phone number
\nthat the girls could call when they arrived on Nuku Hiva. We
\npulled up anchor and within an hour were anchored in Hatiheu –
\nand soon after were on shore awaiting the girls at our
\npre-designated meeting spot at the sole restaurant in town –
\nChez Yvonne. We received a VHF radio call from our friends on
\nIntiaq telling us that Hannah had called the mobile phone, and
\nshe and Mia were in the taxi and en route. There were a number
\nof tatooed and bone bejeweled locals hanging around the
\nrestaurant who knew that the girls were on their way (small
\ntown!) and told us they would be there shortly. At 11:30 a taxi
\npulled up – and hooray – there were Hannah and Mia – looking
\nbeautiful, tired and thirsty. We loaded everything onto the
\ndinghy and had a quick lunch on the boat before sailing back to Anaho Bay which is a much more comfortable place to sleep. Our friends on Intiaq greeted the girls with bouquets of balloons (they are equipped for everything on that boat) – and the girls managed to stay up for a few hours before collapsing. We aren’t sure if they will sleep through the night now, or just take a little nap.<\/p>\n

Monday June 11
\nThe girls slept from 4:30 p.m. yesterday until after 7:00 a.m. this morning! We all woke up to a gorgeaus, sunny day and spent the whole day on the boat – suntanning ( Mia and Hannah anyways), reading, talking, swimming, and visiting with the neighbors on Intiaq and Caramba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 10th, 2007 We are a week behind in keeping up our blog, but it will have to wait, as the most important news is now that Hannah and her friend Mia have arrived safely. We picked them up in the nearby harbor of Hakehau today where there were dropped off after a 2 hour … <\/p>\n

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