Bula to FIJI

And I'm back to writing again!
We got into Nadi in Fiji and somehow our bags came along okay. After a short taxi ride we arrived at the Worldmark by Wyndham and were shown to our room. It was huge! We had a 2 bedroom condo which was bigger than our house in California. It also had a dish washer and the electricity didn't short out when we ran any two appliances at the same time. It even had a washer and dryer!! We were pumped and decided that we'd get food and cook some since we had the facilities available. It was our plan to relax and recover from our constant travelling through Australia and New Zealand.

We knew that the pool had a swim up bar so we changed into our swim suits and headed out to go for a swim and to get a drink. We got drinks and hung around the pool. After about an hour we were bored. There was a sign up showing jet skiing, hot air balloon rides, scuba and other activities. We finished our drinks and headed back to the concierge to start booking some sweet activities. Unfortunately there was a small snag. There was a cyclone heading for Fiji and most outdoor activities were on hold until after it hit.

This put us in the unusual situation of having too much time on our hands the next couple days. The next day we decided to get a taxi into town to get groceries. It was an interesting experience. There was a lot of things that you would have thought were refrigerated that aren't in Fiji. Like milk for instance. After finishing up, we took the touristy island bus to the shopping center downtown. The bus was called the Bula bus and ran every 15 minutes between all the resorts and the shopping center. After getting downtown we wandered around and picked up some souvenirs and presents while sampling various cuisines and drinks in the area. On the bus ride back we noticed there was a 2:1 happy hour at another resort. After stowing our spoils at our condo, we took the bus to the resort and got to happy hour.

After waiting forever for our waiter, we put in our first order and it started pouring outside. We finally got our drinks and got a second round while we watched the downpour outside. After the rain subsided we made our way back to our condo, made dinner and called it a night.

The next day it was pouring again so we decided to do some shopping again. We also wanted to check out the other resorts on the island so we ended up walking to the shopping center by way of each resort so it took us a good 3 hours to walk what would have been 15 minutes straight. After lunch we headed back to our condo and got caught in a downpour. Sadly Megan did not have a rain coat so we split mine between the two of us. As a result, we both ended up soaked. A few cab drivers noticed us and tried to pick up fares but we were much to stubborn to quit walking once we had started. I noted to myself that I would get Megan a raincoat for a Christmas gift.

Luckily, the cyclone hit the islands the hardest the night before so our plans were not impacted going forward which was good since in standard form we had a packed schedule.