The last day we spent in Fiji was a bit manic. Firstly, we woke up to no power - the air conditioning had gone and we were so hot. It turned out there had been a nationwide power cut so that was definitely an interesting thing to wake up to first thing in the morning! Once the power had come back at around 1pm, we decided to check out the nearest village. It was a pretty horrible experience. From the minute we got out of our taxi we were harassed non-stop. Peopl...

Today was a pretty manic day. We had an early start after having little sleep due to a stressful announcement last night! I checked my email for the first time late yesterday evening and found out that our flight to Los Angeles from Nadi had been changed to Monday morning (rather than Sunday night). This was pretty inconvient for us, since we don't have very long in L.A. So we phoned the airline and they told us that we were able to catch an earlier flight - so w...

I wrote a blog post yesterday, but will post it once arriving in the U.S. Today was great. We woke up to beautiful weather, a tropical fruit breakfast and a stroll to the nearest beach. I have uploaded a photo of the beach on my Facebook page! Whilst it's apparently not Fiji's finest, it was still pretty spectacular. The water was really warm, sand gleaming white, lots of Fijian children playing. Not only is the beach stunning, but also the mountains that cover ...

Right now I am sitting on a plane on my way to Nadi in Fiji (of course I will post this later as I don't have wi-fi up here!). Feeling pretty nervous now but so frickin excited! Being in Auckland was cool because it meant I got to see some family friends, but I think maybe because I have been to Auckland a few times it hadn't really sunk in what lays ahead of us until we were dropped off at the international terminal and made our way towards the Fiji Airways ch...

So the adventure finally begins! I have been moaning to everyone for ages that time has gone by so slowly this year, but the past few weeks have gone by incredibly quickly! Leaving was definitely a lot harder than I had expected. This trip will be by far the longest I have ever spent without my family - the longest so far being when I went to Brisbane in February for eight days.. I'm going to miss them a loooott. There were lots of tears at the airport but don't...