French Polynesia - Fire and Dance Show

Today we pretty much laid around the beach and pool and relaxed. For lunch we had a pizza and some new candies!!!! The first up was the Haribo Hari Croco. These are crocodile shaped gummies which come in 3 colors/flavors. Quite good, and a typically gummy candy taste. The only difference is they are a harder texture than normal gummies. Somewhere between a normal gummy and a starburst. Second candy was a Picnic bar. It is actually 2 pieces (like mounds or almond joy), but wasn't a combination I was familiar with. It is basically a chocolate wafer, surrounded by lots of peanuts and carmel, topped off by a chocolate coating. Very delicious, but very messy.

Then it was off to our Polynesian Fire and Dance Show dinner. They have a full buffet leading up to the show, and it have everything on it you could imagine. Paella to sushi to make your own pasta to bbq ribs to fish skewers. And don't even get me started on the dessert side of the buffet: crepes, tarts, pudding, pies, cupcakes, etc. Needless to say we ate too much.

Then the show began. The ladies start off by showing off their dance moves, then come around and select some victims, I mean guests, from the audience to dance along....yep thats MB in the white shirt, showing his moves.

Then the men came out with their torches and began the fire part of the show. They eat fire, step on fire, throw fire, etc. It is quite the show!

Side note: the word Moorea means yellow lizard, which we thought was kind of a weird name for an island, until you realize they are everywhere! Where do they really like to reside? Your ceiling. Yep, they live inside the bungalows on the ceilings and wait for mosquitos (thats what they eat). The native people here say it is bad luck to kill them, plus they don't do any harm to your home, they are just there to eat the mosquitos. Still kind of creepy for AB since she feared they would fall off the ceiling one night and land on her face. They are a gray-brown color with yellow spots and stripes on their back.