Fijian Honeymoon

So Andy and I left for Fiji on April 17th from Sydney. After the 4 hour flight we arrived to a definitely even warmer climate, the tropics! We noticed the difference stepping off the plane, a warm wave of mugginess hit us. It felt great! Our polite and knowledgeable driver from the resort staff was at the airport, to pick us up. It was a 2 hour drive to the resort and a great way to see the countryside. Though a poor country Fiji is beautiful and the native Fijians are such friendly and warm hearted people. Once at the resort we were shown to our bungalow. It was so beautiful and big, it was great to finally have a really quiet beautiful place to sleep. The Wellesley is only a 15 room resort, so it is private and very quiet. The weather was pretty good during our 9 day stay. At least 5 days were pretty sunny with light clouds, the other 4 were more cloudy with rain. But the temperature was still warm so it was very comfortable. And boy did we learn how strong the sun is! We used 30 SPF and Andreas did reapply alot more than me, but we both burned. My worst burn was my upper back/shoulders. The rest of my bikini outline is a really nice golden brown! Love it :)

We so enjoyed our time together in Fiji. We swam in the lagoon and restort pool, we snorkelled, we sea kyaked, we sailed on a little cateraman that Andy manned (I was just along for the ride :), we went on boat cruises, and we had dinner at the beach the 2nd last night. We also went horse back riding on the beach, it was so beautiful, my horse was the lead horse too! Plus of course alot of time on the beach or at the pool reading. And lots of loving each other too!

We also got to know some of the couples at the resort who were staying the same time as us. There were 2 other honeymooner couples, and a couple other couples as well, who were all in our age range. It was fun getting to know them and make more contacts in Australia as well.

Though it was a beautiful day when we left we were ready for the next venture of our year here. We arrived back in Sydney on the evening of the 26th, picked up by a lovely couple Charles and Carolyn who hosted us for a few days.

Next blog will be about our "new" car!