It was the trip we just love to hate. Left our home in Pittsburgh at 9 AM Pittsburgh time. Flew to Phoenix, then LA, then Nadi, FIji. Arrival Pittsburgh time was 1430 Pittsburgh time some 28 plus hours later – 0630 Fiji time. We have found the best strategy is to try and sleep on the LAX – Fiji overwater flight and pretend you got a good nights sleep and go right to Fiji time. Nice try.
Anyway – we decided to pretend that was the case and stay up all day and go to bed that evening. We spent the morning unpacking and going thru things with Steve and Ian before Steve caught the big silver bird home.
After Steve departed, Ian and I spent some time laying our our trip plan between July 22 and August 1 when our daughter arrives in Suva. The resultant plan was to head out the next day for the Yasawa group with the intended end destination of Soma Soma and our friends there. That was to be followed by a trip down to Musket Cove where lots of yachties hang out. Then on to Beqa for a resort experience followed by a run back to Suva on July 31.
WIth the planning behind us, Deb, George and I headed off for a quick tour of the big city (Nadi). Our first stop was the local open air market for some supplies.
George with the Kava.
Then it was off to the Sri Siva Subranmaniya Swami Hindu Temple. If there are more colors under the sun then there are on the temple, it would be pretty tough to figure out what they are.
After a tour, we stopped at a nearby Indian restaurant for a late lunch – the fare was mediocre.
As the afternoon passed, what little energy we had left passed with it. We dragged ourselves back to the boat and I was sound asleep by 6:30 -not what I had hoped for but the best I could do.
We managed to sleep thru most of the night and early the next morning it was off to Soma Soma.