After our flight we land and get our pasports stamped in Fiji, and go an try and find someone to lock up our luggage in the airport for the week. If you have never traveled to the South Pacific or read any books about people traveling to the South Pacific, you might not fully understand the pace at which people move here. You know how when you need to get somewhere and you are stuck behind someone going 10 miles under the speed limit, well that, but worse, is how fast things are done here. After being in Australia for 6 months we are used to the easy going pace, but this was slowwwww. We packed our carry ons in the time being with the clothes we would need for the week and we and changed into something cooler because it was at least 105 degrees inside. After finally finding someone withe the keys to the airport locker we stuff our luggage in left 20 Finitian dollars and signed our names and prayed our stuff would still be there when we got back, we headed to find a taxi to our hotel. We went to the travel agents that moved just as quickly as the luggage people, so we decided to go and get a taxi ourselves. Let me explain what we found when we walked outside, the airport was the size of a small department store there were wild animals roaming around the grounds and people and their children just walking along the sidewalks. The taxies were the peoples cars, no light up sign to let you know if they were legit or not, no meter, you just got in and prayed they weren't going to kidnap you like the movie Taken. Thank god we were all together. It was dark out as we drove to our hotel, and we all just sat looking out the window at the streets of Nadi and prayed that the car would get us there in one piece. I don't think there are any traffic laws in Fiji, if so we broke probably all of them on our ride to the hotel. We finally got to the hotel and I think we jumped out before the car even fully came to a stop =, paid and got our luggage. The hotel was very different open aired and old. We had one of the attendant walk us to our room explaining we probably shouldn't walk around at night, but told us there were guards so it wasn't of a high concern. Where were we!? We got to our room and it was sooo hot! The shower and bathroom were across the hall and there was an enormous spider in the corner of the room, we immediately got the attendant to kill it was when it all of a sudden disappeared we asked if we could be switched to a different room. We traveled to our new room, which was more of an apartment with a full kitchen and two bathroom and two bedrooms thank god!
After settling in a little and giggling over the adventure we have already had we headed to the one sole restaurant for dinner, which was very delicious! We also got fancy drinks and met up with an American girl that went to school with us in Australia for drinks, she was also spending the week in Fiji.
Our walk back to the room was full of sightings of island dogs and cats and the occasional frog, I was glad to be heading to a different island tomorrow morning.
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