April 13, 2011
Finally a more civilized wake-up and departure. But of course the downside is that we pretty much wasted a day. Had breakfast in the hotel and boarded a bus for the airport for our flight to Fiji. Lots of time spent at the airport but then you never know how much time it is going to take for 40+ people to get checked in. Luckily this group is VERY good at following directions (We are good NZ sheep responding to a well training herding dog) . All are ready when expected and follow packing instructions to keep airport problems aat a minimum. Flight was un eventful.
Arrived in Fiji on schedule and drove 45 minutes to our resort. This is a beautiful place. Can’t wait to see it in the daytime as our room and lanai (yes I know that is a Hawaiian word) looks out on either the lagoon or the ocean. A very lovely family type resort with lots to do. Good thing too because we are pretty far out from everything. But as usual we will have plenty of excursions to keep us busy.
Fiji really is a third world country as noticed on our short trip here. But that’s not to say that the Fijians are downtrodden. This is the life that they are accustomed to and seem to be content. Their country is about 50/50 Fijian and Indian. The Indians were brought here by the English colonists to work the sugar fields. There seems to be a nice compliment of the two, the Fijians own the land and the Indians own the businesses.
A huge buffet dinner with LOADS of choices, literally from soup to nuts, was included for us tonight’s. And thanx to the duty free shop in Auckland our liquor cabinet is stocked again.
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