Holiday Inn Suva

hmmmmmm, back from Suva already, we have had enough of the shopping experience, all the Indo Fijians stalls sell the same stuff (mass produced wooden face masks, turtle and fake traditional weapons). We decided to go for a walk uptown and discovered Suva was effectively 2 parts, a quiet Traditional Fijian part and in the first half was the mad Indo Fijian markets. The markets were nothing like what you see at ...

... brother he didn't really talk but on Thursday he did. He talked about what soccer teams he likes and he said that all his friends really wanted to come and meet us. He said one told him that he'd bring us internet if he could meet us and that we could download whatever we wanted to, haha. Another one of his friends was going to come all the way from Latoka (the other side of the island) just to hang out with us. 

Friday, July 24, 2009: 
For breakfast we had cereal (weet-bix ...

... by the fact there were five sharks about my size swimming around me. Three of them actually swam around me at one point and I was brave enough to stick out my hand and actually stroke one of them!!! After that I was screaming I just touched a shark, I just touched a shark, through my snorkel!!

After about an hour we were hauled up on to the boat and everyone relived their stories!! I still couldn't get over that we'd done it. Phil and I did the best ...

The Western Bulldogs came to Fiji looking to find a ruckman. They have been here about 6 times this year watching all the athletics and rugby events looking for talent. This weekend they bought 3 of their fitness staff and Will Minson, their ruckman to conduct a talent ID program. It must have rained for 24 hours ...

... and bull sharks. I was a bit disappointed we hadn't seen the tiger shark but it was still a fantastic dive. We all stroked the nurse sharks. They seemed greedy trying to eat all the food. The dive instructors would push them away. They we're like greedy dogs. As we were surfacing there was a silvertip swimming around beneath me. Great dive!! Definitely recommend it. Heading to Tavueni tomorrow for apparently more great dives. Can't wait!!

Bula everyone back in Oz Sorry its taken a while to update you on our Fiji progress, however I have been flat out working. I know you will find this hard to believe, but they sold me a dud when I got the job. Its a 5 day a week gig - I thought it was a 5 day weekend. Anyway, for those of you who are interested and havent forgotten us just yet, heres an update on my 1st 2 weeks here and Pams 1st week. Apologies for the massive group email, but thats the way ...

... shower does not have a curtain, the sink did not drain, oh yea if you want water you could pay $5.00 a bottle or you drank rain water. So I had rain water. Which by the way is not bad and it looked clear to me. I spent 4 days on this island, it was beautiful but there was no electricity during the day, I really missed electricity, I did not know how dependent I was on it. They had activities each night, they did a fire dance, games, etc. It was a lot ...