Made it to Fiji safely, but our luggage didn't! Oh well, we all need some adventure. We're hoping it comes tomorrow.
Met some neat people on the flights from Atlanta to LA. A lady next to us had recently spent six weeks in Fiji with her husdband and loved it. She suggested some places to visit. I met Chi on the flight from Denver to LA. He's a medical intern in LA who is originally from Camerron (sp?), Africa. He plans to go back there to practice after a few years learning a specialty.
When we were in on a layover in LA John's brother took us out for a great dinner! It was neat to see the two Kuge brothers interacting.
Our first part of our morning in Fiji, starting at 5am, was spent looking for luggage that never arrived and then waiting in line to file the missing luggage report.
We have a fairly nice room with two beds with bunk beds above them. The cold water didn't start working until about 11am. We're starting out easy, after the ten hour flight form LA.
Air Pacific said they would reimburse us for up to $100 Fiji dollars for items we needed to purchase in the next 24-hours before the luggage arrived so we took a bus ride ($0.65) to downtown Nadi to shop for items. It was very hot, congested and had a mixture of low-end local shops and high end shops. We saw swim suits ranging from $10 to $100 Fiji dollars. Ending up buying a couple for $20 which is about $12 US, not bad, along with some other stuff we needed.
We had some really good Indian food for lunch. There a large Indian population here. They own a lot of the shops here.
We met a really nice, young couple, Laura and Thomas who are currently from Vancouver, Canada. Caught the bus with them back to the hostel we're staying at, cooled off in the hostels swimming pool and probably will be joining them for dinner. They're both quite adventurous. We may go with them to one of the nicest beaches in Fiji tomorrow.
To my Mom - I'm fine, the phone system here seems to cut out after about a minute whenever John and some others here have tried making long distance calls. Love yah!
-Chris
Met some neat people on the flights from Atlanta to LA. A lady next to us had recently spent six weeks in Fiji with her husdband and loved it. She suggested some places to visit. I met Chi on the flight from Denver to LA. He's a medical intern in LA who is originally from Camerron (sp?), Africa. He plans to go back there to practice after a few years learning a specialty.
When we were in on a layover in LA John's brother took us out for a great dinner! It was neat to see the two Kuge brothers interacting.
Our first part of our morning in Fiji, starting at 5am, was spent looking for luggage that never arrived and then waiting in line to file the missing luggage report.
We have a fairly nice room with two beds with bunk beds above them. The cold water didn't start working until about 11am. We're starting out easy, after the ten hour flight form LA.
Air Pacific said they would reimburse us for up to $100 Fiji dollars for items we needed to purchase in the next 24-hours before the luggage arrived so we took a bus ride ($0.65) to downtown Nadi to shop for items. It was very hot, congested and had a mixture of low-end local shops and high end shops. We saw swim suits ranging from $10 to $100 Fiji dollars. Ending up buying a couple for $20 which is about $12 US, not bad, along with some other stuff we needed.
We had some really good Indian food for lunch. There a large Indian population here. They own a lot of the shops here.
We met a really nice, young couple, Laura and Thomas who are currently from Vancouver, Canada. Caught the bus with them back to the hostel we're staying at, cooled off in the hostels swimming pool and probably will be joining them for dinner. They're both quite adventurous. We may go with them to one of the nicest beaches in Fiji tomorrow.
To my Mom - I'm fine, the phone system here seems to cut out after about a minute whenever John and some others here have tried making long distance calls. Love yah!
-Chris
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