PADI 3 day Scuba Diving Course Tuesday 15 August 2006 - Confined Water Session Early morning start at Aqua Blue Dive Shop.... Firstly signing our lives away, getting increasingly scared at the amount of time the word death was mentioned on the forms. Once it was clear that we were not allowed to sue them if we died we were sent in to a little room to watch 3 hours of scuba diving training. Ellie getting herself worked up the more she watched (she h...

Sunday 13 August 2006 - Ellie's Birthday! Bounty Island and South Sea Island. Took the local bus (rolled up material replacing glass windows!) to Denarau Port. Perfect way to start Ellie's birthday with cocktails at 8.30am, unfortunately having to down them in the end as we were going to miss the boat! But we made it and off we went on our Twin Island Escape. The morning was spent at Bounty Island (aka the original Celebrity Love Island!). Got a s...

Saturday 12 August 2006 - Arriving in Fiji We were welcomed at Fiji airport by Fijians singing and playing instruments in bright Hula shirts! A nice welcome! Taken to Horizon Backpackers, our home for the next 14 nights - or so we had originally planned! Had a walk along our beach, which was nice enough but decided to make plans for the following day to get to a couple of the islands (as so many people had advised us!). A quick relax on the beach be...

Thursday 10 August 2006 - Santa Rosa/San Francisco Airport/LAX Woke up to the news of events from the UK airports. So thought it best to get to the airport early with there being extra security. So felt like day was spent at the 2 airports waiting for flights. Friday 11 August 2006 - The Lost Day.... Went forward 19 hours so we had no Friday......so not sure what happened?!

Wednesday 9 August 2006 - Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Back into San Francisco to ride bikes over the Golden Gate Bridge. Rita didn't know what she was letting herself in for as she hadn't ridden a bike (other than non moving ones in the gym!) since she was about 10. Wobbly at first, almost falling into cars and getting run over but she battled on ready for the ride ahead. Started at Fisherman's Wharf, passed the Piers, along the coast, up and...