Day Two in Fiji!
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anonymoose_au10:22pm: After a very good night's sleep (Monday didn't go as well because both Mum and her friend both snore and we were sharing a room, LOL) it was full speed ahead for the first full day in Fiji.
We started off with breakfast, which is included in our stay. It's meant to be a Tropical breakfast, but the hotel lets you have other breakfast stuff as long as it adds up to the same amount, so Mum and I shared a plate of eggs on toast, hash brown, breakfast sausage and bacon. I didn't want bacon and Mum didn't want the bacon, so we swapped those and that was good eatin'!
Then we headed off into the nearest town in the hope of buying a few things, like cheese and maybe a souvineer, there's this really cool clock at the hotel reception here, I have seen such ones before, where all the numbers have are at the bottom of the clock like they've fallen there and "Who cares?" written on it. Considering my chronic lateness this would be very handy indeed! As it happens I couldn't find said clock, but it's not really a Fiji-centric souvineer, you can buy those online (although the one here at the hotel has "Fiji Time" or something written on it), so I ended up getting a t-shirt with a turtle and Fiji written on it. Nice.
I also got my cheese! And there was a fabric shop where I found some embroidery thread, I'm working on a new Pusheen cross-stitch - tropical themed :O) We also went to the vegetable market, where we got carrots, there was also some very interestingly shaped bananas there too. Mum's friend bought a really short fat one LOL, we're going to eat it on Thursday - it's still green at present.
I did have a bit of a scare when I didn't notice a step down and my right foot landed quite heavily, but fortunately, it's OK.
Oh and we also bought a big bag of Twisties and since we had a big and late breakfast I didn't have much for lunch back at our hotel, just some of those and a carrot LOL.
After that we went to the beach just across from the hotel, which is just for hotel guests (although, there's nothing really stopping anyone from just going there, but I think people are generally honest) where we sat on beach chairs. Mum also got us some reef shoes - the hotel is on the Coral Coast of Fiji, which means there's a big coral reef on the beach that extends out for what has to be about a kilometre. So if you want to go into the water you need these reef shoes so you don't cut your foot on coral. Mum and I went into the water for a bit, but the tide was going out, so it wasn't quite deep enough to swim, we'll try again tomorrow. (Good news for me, that time o' the month is finally over!)
Then finally, the big event of the day, dinner at the fancy hotel with a Cultural Show of Fijian music and dancing. It was a most delicious dinner, a buffet! :O) And the Cultural show was really interesting too although I had trouble making out the explanations the host gave, so I was bit lost as to what was going down LOL.
The only downside of the evening was that the seat of my chair was loose, which I didn't notice until I went to pull it in closed to the table, a which point I got one of my fingers caught between the seat and the frame and that hurt like an absolute bitch! I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with a bruise under my nail after that, ouch.
In other news, I got the 11th prompt of McFly July done and posted, but I didn't write any on others, there was quite a bit of downtime today but I was working on my embroidery instead. Ah well, you can only do your best.
Anywho, it's coming up to 11pm, so I should probably head off and do my Duolingo before my mother and her friend decide to head to bed.
Goodnight!
We started off with breakfast, which is included in our stay. It's meant to be a Tropical breakfast, but the hotel lets you have other breakfast stuff as long as it adds up to the same amount, so Mum and I shared a plate of eggs on toast, hash brown, breakfast sausage and bacon. I didn't want bacon and Mum didn't want the bacon, so we swapped those and that was good eatin'!
Then we headed off into the nearest town in the hope of buying a few things, like cheese and maybe a souvineer, there's this really cool clock at the hotel reception here, I have seen such ones before, where all the numbers have are at the bottom of the clock like they've fallen there and "Who cares?" written on it. Considering my chronic lateness this would be very handy indeed! As it happens I couldn't find said clock, but it's not really a Fiji-centric souvineer, you can buy those online (although the one here at the hotel has "Fiji Time" or something written on it), so I ended up getting a t-shirt with a turtle and Fiji written on it. Nice.
I also got my cheese! And there was a fabric shop where I found some embroidery thread, I'm working on a new Pusheen cross-stitch - tropical themed :O) We also went to the vegetable market, where we got carrots, there was also some very interestingly shaped bananas there too. Mum's friend bought a really short fat one LOL, we're going to eat it on Thursday - it's still green at present.
I did have a bit of a scare when I didn't notice a step down and my right foot landed quite heavily, but fortunately, it's OK.
Oh and we also bought a big bag of Twisties and since we had a big and late breakfast I didn't have much for lunch back at our hotel, just some of those and a carrot LOL.
After that we went to the beach just across from the hotel, which is just for hotel guests (although, there's nothing really stopping anyone from just going there, but I think people are generally honest) where we sat on beach chairs. Mum also got us some reef shoes - the hotel is on the Coral Coast of Fiji, which means there's a big coral reef on the beach that extends out for what has to be about a kilometre. So if you want to go into the water you need these reef shoes so you don't cut your foot on coral. Mum and I went into the water for a bit, but the tide was going out, so it wasn't quite deep enough to swim, we'll try again tomorrow. (Good news for me, that time o' the month is finally over!)
Then finally, the big event of the day, dinner at the fancy hotel with a Cultural Show of Fijian music and dancing. It was a most delicious dinner, a buffet! :O) And the Cultural show was really interesting too although I had trouble making out the explanations the host gave, so I was bit lost as to what was going down LOL.
The only downside of the evening was that the seat of my chair was loose, which I didn't notice until I went to pull it in closed to the table, a which point I got one of my fingers caught between the seat and the frame and that hurt like an absolute bitch! I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with a bruise under my nail after that, ouch.
In other news, I got the 11th prompt of McFly July done and posted, but I didn't write any on others, there was quite a bit of downtime today but I was working on my embroidery instead. Ah well, you can only do your best.
Anywho, it's coming up to 11pm, so I should probably head off and do my Duolingo before my mother and her friend decide to head to bed.
Goodnight!
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