Crouching beneath the surface of Bora Bora's impossibly blue lagoon, I watched as stingrays and black-tip sharks swam calmly around me. Emerging, I looked up just in time to see two enormous humpback whales simultaneously breaching in the distance.
These two enthusiastic Tahitian men dragged my girls around on a kickboard, hoisted them into the primo sunny spot at the front of our snorkeling boat, and gave them each a small bottle of vanilla-scented monoi oil to take home.
Most people come to Tahiti and its surrounding islands to celebrate a honeymoon, or a milestone birthday. They come for scenes like the double rainbow stretching onto the black sand of Plage Lafayette that greeted us on our first morning...
I brought Tove and Jordana to French Polynesia because I wanted my own honeymoon with them: an unhurried time to get to know my girls better. Less pointing out the mess in their room, more pointing out the octopus resting on the underwater rocks.
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