Thiefs!

We awoke to find a glorious day today and eight of us quickly decided to venture to Pangai-motu - a rustic resort island only a 15 minute boat ride from the Nuku'alofa warf.







Sami & Kiki waiting for the shuttle boat at the warf.






During training, we'd had hammered into us that the PC requires us to have a life jacket anytime we're in a boat. We'd been issued one when we went to Ha'apai, but on our return, they had been placed at the PC office. So before heading out, we went by the office to find that the life jackets had been moved from where they'd been during the week. We roamed around a bit and finally found them in a locked storage shed in the back. While the security guard looked on, we checked the windows which were all shut tight and then used a credit card to pop the door open. We got our life jackets, relocked the door and headed out....completely oblivious to the trouble we had just gotten ourselves into.






Don't we look happy (& innocent) here in our life jackets??







When we arrived - we were elated to see how wonderful this little island was ... and we began to feel a little worry also as one of the PC staff members was sitting on the dock when we got in, on his cell phone advising someone we'd arrived. Rose went right up to him and explained exactly what we'd done ... but we soon realized, we were in pretty big trouble. Evenso, we did our best to enjoy the afternoon and worry about the consequences when we returned.