Blogs from Pacific, Oceans and Seas - page 19

My travel blog has officially been reignited by time to think and something to report after a year away! Travel experience poor for a year until now, I managed to arrange a long weekend in The Kingdom of Tonga. Arriving at Nuku'alofa airport was a standard Polynesian affair - don't expect efficiency, but do expect a sudden head-lift-come-nod, as in 'Malo e lei lei' to Tonga. Vichi, a Fijian born resident and our driver, graced me with a leis of flowers and we waited out another 30 minutes until the remaining 4 arrived, 25C and fine. The trip from the airport to Ha'atafu takes about an hour, but we quickly turned that into 2.5 hours with stops at ATMs, a mini supermarket and the less elaborate weekday market. Almost everywhere you look in Tonga is evidence ... read more

Geo: 23.8055, -143.789 This was the last time we would lose an hour of sleep until we fry from California to Utah. We ended up sleeping in again and made it to breakfast with the girls at about 9:45. We ate in Beach Blanket again. There was not much going on today. Nikki and I decided to go see Avengers again. Regan and Kelsie went off to do their things. I know Regan went to an animation class with Ducky Williams and Kelsie did do some homework. Other than that, they will have to tell you what they did. After the show Nikki and I went to Beach Blanket for lunch. They had seafood and sushi so Nikki decided to grab a burger. I had sushi and a crab leg for lunch. We then met Regan ... read more

Geo: 23.8055, -143.789 Because we lost another hour today we ended up sleeping in a while before we met the girls for breakfast at Beach Blanket Buffet. After Breakfast the girls went their way and Nikki and I went for a little walk and to look at photos in Shutters. After our walk we went to the Art of Entertaining demonstration where we learned to cook veal cutlets with couscous. It was delicious. Then Nikki went off to a scrapbook class and Regan, Kelsie and I went to a Disney Parks Music Trivia. Kelsie's friend Grace joined us. We won the competition and got hats and water bottles. Then Kelsie and Grace went off to have more fun while Nikki, Regan and I went to lunch at Pinocchio’s Pizzaria and Pluto’s Dog House. Today was overcast ... read more

Bulaaa everyone! Da er vi nok en gang ferdig med et land. Denne gangen Fiji. Det har vært seks dager med total avslapning, noe vi virkelig trengte etter tre hektiske måneder med mye farting. Da vi ankom flyplassen i Nadi, Fiji kjente vi varmen strømme på og det var bare å ta av seg alt av fleecejakker og langbukser. Selv om det har vært flom her for tre uker siden merket vi hvertfall ingenting til det. Igjen har værgudene vært med oss! Etter å ha sovet en natt på fastlandet var vi klare for å utforske de tropiske øyene rundt hovedøya Vitu Levu. Fiji består av i alt 320 øyer, men vi hadde bare tid til to av de. I to netter har vi vært på Beachcomber Island. Da vi ankom øya ble vi møtt av ... read more

Geo: 21.1152, -151.007 Today I was punished for sleeping in so late yesterday. I was awake at 5:15. I went out on the verandah to read for a while and then headed to deck 4 and walked for two miles. Then up to deck 9 to grab a drink. It was about 6:45 at this time and already people had staked out their lounge chairs by the pool. There was not one without personal items on them but, surprisingly, the pool was empty and at least ¾ of the chairs were too. I then headed back down to the room to read some more until Nikki woke up. We had a character breakfast at 8:00 am and Nik woke up around 7. At 7:30 we called and woke up the girls and then met them at ... read more