Fiji Stopover

Instead of going straight home after Australia most of us from Bond Uni decided to do a stop-over in Fiji. My friend has a timeshare so six of us rented it out for the week. It was pretty damn cheap, a good deal. It was in Port Denauru, Nadi, Fiji. It was at the Wyndham Worldmark hotel villas. Pretty much we laid by the pool almost every day and just relaxed alot. I read some books and got a lot of sun. It was between 90-110 degrees F daily. One day it rained a little bit which was the day I was going to rent a scooter which is too bad. Jen and I took a catamaran to an island called Beachcomber's Island. It was real nice. Cool coral sand. The water was so clear and refreshing. We had a buffet of Fijian foods. The island was so small that we were able to walk around it's outer beach around the whole island in less than five minutes. This island is also where the international dateline is; so I was in two days at once sort of! On the last day we had to move over to the Sheraton Villas which were even nicer than Wyndham's. It was great. I didn't drink much this week, maybe two out of the six nights. It was just a good week of sleeping and what not. Actually, I watched two seasons of this HBO show called The Wire, which is one of the best television dramas I have ever seen in my entire life. I highly recommend you to rent the DVDs or something. At the airport we met up with the other Northeastern Bondies and Joe P was generous enough to buy us all several shots of this alcohol called Bountry Overproof, 58.5% proof rum. It was gross but it did the job. I took some Advil PM and slept the entire plane ride to LA, which was great. In LA Jen and I went on a mini-adventure on some random buses to In-and-Out Burger, a famous burger joint with very cheap food that's only located on the West Coast. It was delicious. Then we still had another 5 of the 9 hour layover left. I finished watching the mafia hit show Underbelly, a show based on true life events of the drug war mafias in Melbourne, Aussie (which I went to) from 1994-2004. It was a good show, only 13 episodes. The flight from LA to Boston went pretty quickly although I was unable to sleep much. Unfortunately our friends who took the flight to JFK had electrical problems on their plane and they were diverted to Dallas Airport, which sucks. We are lucky we missed the storms and stuff. We arrived and the airport lost my bags, but fortunately they found them right away and I was all set. Jen was sweet enough to drive me home and now I have been back in good old Massachusetts for one day now... with 3 feet of snow and more snowstorms to come. I went from 115 degree weather to 15 degree weather in a matter of hours... Yay..