Bula!
On our first night into this fabulous country we showed up to Nadi (pronounced Nandi--apparently in Fiji there are invisible letters in words) and watched a perfect sunset from our hammock. We managed to not get eaten alive by bugs (that was saved til later) and spent a nice day lolling in the sun, and occasionally in a sprinkle of rain but when you are hard core about the sport called tanning like us, you don't let a little thing like rain get in your way. That would just be weak.
The next night we got to watch a fire dance, some of the high lights being him dropping it and catching part of his skirt on fire, licking the flame, and of course holding fire in his hand. It was pretty radical. We met an English friend named Penny who was great fun and introduced us (a little late since I'm leaving the Pacific in 3 days) to the glory that is potato wedges dipped in sweet chili sauce and sour cream. Unbelievable.
Our next stop was mango bay (I ordered a mango Daiquiri and was quickly informed they were out of mangoes). Our nice air conditioned bus, which has pulled into the front of many a swanky resort suddenly stopped on the side of the road and the driver yelled out "Mango Bay!" and we were thrown off the bus. That might be a little dramatic, but luckily there was a nice man who spoke very little English and seemed 4/5 asleep was there to save us with a van missing some windows and with more than one duct tape repair. So of course we clambered in and thankfully were deposited at our resort and not a basement. And then we had one glorious day of sunshine... followed by two days where it poured all day so we sat in the restaurant reading, watching bad movies, and playing board games in ways that confused foreigners. And then we saw some pretty cool creatures!
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| The teeniest tiniest crabby!! |
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| Al's favorite starfish |
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| The dorms there were pretty cool too. |
What was supposed to be our traveling day to the next resort ended up being a we lost our vouchers day and have to catch the afternoon bus instead so let's go snorkeling and play Fijian games that make us look foolish. All in all it worked out pretty well in spite of our silliness. Sadly though we were too lazy to go find our waterproof camera so our snorkeling pictures are on some guy's camera... but fingers crossed facebook comes through for us. We did see some pretty cool stuff just off the beach from the resort, like a blow fish, and some blue fish... and some yellow ones, and some with neon green and purple spots on their faces! Yes, I am studying to be a marine biologist and I'm doing quite well thank you. When we were told the afternoon time of the bus the lady on the phone said 3:50 (i think) but the lady at the desk said no it's at 3:15 so be here at 3 to catch the sketch shuttle back out to the middle of nowhere. So we did, Allie had to bang on the window a couple times to wake him up from the very extreme nap he was having in the back seat and then once again we were on the side of the road with all our bags and loading on the bug spray. Well 3:15 rolled on by... 3:30... around 3:40 a bus rolls up and starts throwing our stuff on, still not sure it was the bus we were supposed to get on but it got us where we wanted to go so I guess that's what's important?
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| The Uprising Resort |
So we made it safe and sound and checked in to our next resort, at which point we decided to just take a glorious day to relax and lay in the sun again which had gloriously reappeared to shower us in... um sunlight. And all was well until the bugs finally beat us and devoured us whole.
So Fiji is basically paradise. But with bugs.
What was supposed to be our traveling day to the next resort ended up being a we lost our vouchers day and have to catch the afternoon bus instead so let's go snorkeling and play Fijian games that make us look foolish. All in all it worked out pretty well in spite of our silliness. Sadly though we were too lazy to go find our waterproof camera so our snorkeling pictures are on some guy's camera... but fingers crossed facebook comes through for us. We did see some pretty cool stuff just off the beach from the resort, like a blow fish, and some blue fish... and some yellow ones, and some with neon green and purple spots on their faces! Yes, I am studying to be a marine biologist and I'm doing quite well thank you. When we were told the afternoon time of the bus the lady on the phone said 3:50 (i think) but the lady at the desk said no it's at 3:15 so be here at 3 to catch the sketch shuttle back out to the middle of nowhere. So we did, Allie had to bang on the window a couple times to wake him up from the very extreme nap he was having in the back seat and then once again we were on the side of the road with all our bags and loading on the bug spray. Well 3:15 rolled on by... 3:30... around 3:40 a bus rolls up and starts throwing our stuff on, still not sure it was the bus we were supposed to get on but it got us where we wanted to go so I guess that's what's important?
