Hippie Living in the South Wedge: Bula!

Nadi, Fiji Weather: HOT. partly cloudy, 95% humidity, high 80's. Like I said, HOT.

We woke up early & stopped at BK for some breakfast. Croissainwiches & tater tots just make mornings so much better. We headed to the Queenstown airport to drop off our car & catch a flight to Auckland.

BK breakfast

Queenstown Airport

We had a layover at the Auckland Airport. Let me just say this- the international terminal at the Auckland Airport is about 100 times better than the international terminal at the Los Angeles Airport. LAX needs to seriously step it up! We had a couple beers at Blue Bar while waiting for our flight. We used our remaining New Zealand $$ to buy a few souvenirs, including a small sheep for Muffin & Hallie (seriously).

Once again, allow me to rave about Air Pacific. They rock. We got sandwiches, cookies, a glass of wine and coffee. It's only a 3 hour flight!

Finally, we arrived in Fiji. Bula! (That's Fijian for "Hello," or "Welcome" or something like that) After a short delay at customs we headed to our hotel, The Westin Resort on Denarau Island. (Ask Peter about the delay in customs... He was the one who decided to try to smuggle an apple over from New Zealand!) Thankfully we were each handed a bottle of Fiji Water upon our arrival, 'cause we were already sweating our butts off!

Coconut

Taking in the scenery

Crabs

We saw what appeared to be an infestation of frogs at the resort! The were everywhere!! Upon further inspection we saw flying ants at the bottom of a bunch of trees. Apparently flying ants were hatching & frogs had come in from near & far for a smorgasbord!