Moorea: A honeymoon just like a postcard
I never cared much about big wedding plans ... My big plans were always for MY honeymoon and they did not include beaches and palm trees. My hubby and I were going to fly to Finland and spend a week doing nothing at all in an igloo hotel and then spend a week exploring Lapland and chasing the Northern Lights. But then the time came to fly to Finland and even I, miss travelblogger and flight attendant, was too tired to fly from Los Angeles to New York to Helsinki for a total of 20 hours followed by a long 12 hour drive to Lapland. Plus, it wasn't really his dream and this thing called marriage is apparently about two people making decisions together and not just me deciding what I want to do ... Who knew? -:) So the search began for somewhere relaxing, not too far from LA, preferably a direct flight, and voila, in between googling the Maldives and the Fiji overwater bungalows, I stumbled into BEAUTIFUL French Polynesia. I can go on and describe how gorgeous the wa