18th May - When we got to Fiji we'd lost a day of our lives... Always good to know. We were really tired and pretty much ate dinner and went to sleep.
19th May - We sunbathed by the pool but didn't go in. Its not that hot in Fiji... We booked our day trips to the other islands at the tour desk in our hostel, which was really helpful. We were kinda bored in Nadi.
20th May - We sunbathed on the beach again but actually got a lounger to lie on for once. It rained for the first time for ages today! Tonight we watched a Fijian Show which included fire dancing. It was free too which was good! Packed up and got ready to leave for Robinson Crusoe Island tomorrow.
21st May - We were picked up at 11 by a shuttle bus which took us to a small jetty in the middle of the countryside then we got on a speedboat to the island. We arrived on a day trip-day so we weren't immediately impressed with the cheesey activities for the day. Especially the fake turtle watching... When the day trippers left, we watched the most amazing sunset on the beach and chatted to the other people staying on the island, and had a Kava Ceremony to welcome us. We had a bonfire and a pool party later and really enjoyed it.
22nd May - It was pretty hot today. We sunbathed and swam in the pool. We went into the jungle to collect leaves to make costumes for 'Join the Tribe' day. A german girl had a jumping spider on her back and I felt so bad because none of us could get it off her. It soon jumped off though. And we noticed that there were lots of spiders all over the coconut leaves! Argh! We hug races and tug of war contests on the beach. I hid from the kava ceremony. I don't think I could've handled it, especially not with a hangover. We played the spinning stick game in the sand, which was so funny! We were locked in a cage for losing... We stayed up and got our legs bitten to shreds!
23rd May - We sunbathed again, although there wasnt much sun but it was warm enough. We spent literally the entire day making jewellery out of coconuts which was so fun! I got addicted to sanding it until Frankie told me to stop! The hardest part was removing the outer shell of the coconut. I had my first ever bucket shower today and actually had enough water to shave my legs and shampoo my hair! There was a night-trip so we missed out on the Kava Ceremony. We saw a Sea Snake come out of the sea just as the night-trippers arrived and the guy grabbed it by the tail and threw it back in! It absolutely poured with rain but the staff still danced! Crazy
24th May - We started off reading on the beach but as soon as Frankie left with others for snorkelling (honestly it was too cold for snorkelling!) it started chucking it down! Apparently they saw a metre long sea snake along side the boat too and they still snorkelled. And after seeing that reef shark yesterday too!! The place was practically flooded by dinner time. The staff danced in torrential downpours and Frankie played volleyball then went in the pool because they were that soaked! We had our final Kava Ceremony and said goodbye to everyone and welcomed the new people. We held it in the 'nightclub' because it was wet and freezing outside.
25th May - We left Robinson Crusoe straight after breakfast and everyone gathered on the beach to sing us goodbye, which was cool. The weather cleared up and it was actually sunny, although still rainy, in Nadi. We did boring stuff like laundry (because all our clothes were damp) and went online for a while. We were happy to go to sleep earlier than midnight for once too!
26th May - At 9am (fiji time) we got our speedboat to Mana. We'd wisely left my backpack in luggage storage this time and put my stuff in Frankie's bag and the stuff he wouldnt need we left behind with my bag. Was so much easier. Although the boat did break down and we had to change boats in the middle of the ocean, so it's lucky we only had one bag!! It made me so sea sick! We started sunbathing as soon as we got to Mana but soon the clouds appeared and then it started pouring again. As we went inside we saw our friends Tasha and hayley that we'd met at Robinson Crusoe so we just chatted to them until the rain died down. After the rain, me and Frankie walked over to the Survivor film location on the other side f the beach which was eerie and we got bitten to death!!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Hawaii (2nd-17th/05/2009)
2nd May - We walked round Waikiki and explored the market place and beach area
3rd May - We visited Pearl Harbor on the bus and saw the USS Arizona memorial. It's really cool because you can see the outline of the whole sunken wreck beneath you. It's huge so some of it pokes out of the water. There's still loads of oil seeping out of it into the ocean, after like 50 years.
4th May - We climbed up Diamond Head volcanic crater to admire the views
5th May - We visited the Foster Botanical Gardens just outside China Town. We tried to find the other gardens which was supposed to be right next to it but just ended up walking round for ages before heading back!
6th May - We hiked to Manoa Falls through a jungle trail in Manoa Valley (apparently there are no snakes in Hawaii at all, which is always reassuring!) We tried a Hawaiian 'Puka Dog' for dinner. Really weird. I had a vegetarian one with garlic and lemon dressing and banana salsa stuff and Frankie had garlic and lemon with chilli and mango salsa. Wouldn't have another one but least we tried it...
7th May - We spent the day on the beach. We tried lemon iced tea because its what everyone seems to drink out here. Decided it was rank.
8th May - We went sightseeing in Waikiki and Ala Moana looking at all the 'Lost' film locations! At night we watched the fireworks show on the beach and a hula dance.
9th May - We went snorkelling in Hanauma Bay. Cost $5 each to get in and we had to watch a cheesy american video about the sealife. The water was freezing though and it was quite a long journey back so we only stayed for a couple of hours. We saw some really cool fish though. We had a Dominos for dinner but Frankie was still hungry afterwards :( We both agreed it was smaller than normal larges!
10th May - Chilled on the beach. Got 'Angels and Demons' book. Got some fresh melon and papya for lunch (papya is now one of our favourite fruits). Had a hostel BBQ for dinner and sat round chatting to a few people for a bit before going to bed after getting freaked out by surrounding cockroaches looking for food!
11th May - North Shore - took two buses to get there and we missed out stop for waimea Bay but ended up at Sunset Beach but it was beautiful anyway and we were glad we stopped there. We stayed there for a few hours, but the water got deep quickly and there was rocks further out - big waves - but it wasn't busy at all and looked kinda like the beaches in 'Lost' which was awesome.
12th May - Walked down to Market Place and shopped a bit (well I did) then we caught the bus to the north east shore (Kualoa Ranch). We went on a one hour horse ride which was more than enough time really. Frankie rode Ace and I rode Blackie. It was fantastic with amazing views. We had to ride Western style which was okay 'cause you just had to side there and relax (and hold on!) We got to see the setting for '50 First Dates' and the 'Lost' submarine explosion.
13th May - rented a surfboard from the hostel. Frankie was standing up straight away but i was rubbish and kept falling off or getting dragged under by the board. Did that for a couple of hours anyway (obviously I didnt stay out there that long because the other surfers were gonna run me down!!) We had a spicy swordfish salad for dinner but Frankie was still hungry so he got a macdonalds then we watched 'Slumdog Millionaire' at the hostel's movie night (it was good but the guy from 'Skins' was a bit of a poo actor)
14th May -got a couple of body boards and went down to the pier and sea wall. We caught my first wave together which was cool! had to rent flippers because without them my kick wasnt strong enough to catch waves! Had a frappecinno in starbucks for lunch. Later we sunbathed then at night we went down and got the 2nd Twilight book.
15th May - Did laundry (and saw a little mousey dying... it was sad) We needed lots of quarters and it didn't really clean our stuff amazingly well. Gay. Chilled at the hostel for a bit and looked into where we wanna go and what we wanna do in Fiji. Went to the net cafe and rushed to upload all our photos as quick as we could. 40 mins came to $6. Sat under rain clouds on the beach. Got some pizzas from supermarket and a raspberry vodka for Fiji because alcohol is apparently so expensive out there. I bought a new belly bar (which is all twisty and cool) because my other one was going a bit ranky
16th May - We went body boarding again which was awesome and we were catching loads of waves!! But then I snapped my body board in half when I'd caught a wave - i think it got stuck on a rock. its really rocky and shallow there. Frankie had to do it without flippers but I rented some again. Went food shopping, and treated ourselves to Ben and Jerry's cookie dough because it was on offer! (It wasn't expensive honestly!) Then I wrote alllllll this blog with Frankie reading me all the stuff we did from his diary.
Tomorrow we're leaving at 5am to catch our 8am flight to Fiji.
3rd May - We visited Pearl Harbor on the bus and saw the USS Arizona memorial. It's really cool because you can see the outline of the whole sunken wreck beneath you. It's huge so some of it pokes out of the water. There's still loads of oil seeping out of it into the ocean, after like 50 years.
4th May - We climbed up Diamond Head volcanic crater to admire the views
5th May - We visited the Foster Botanical Gardens just outside China Town. We tried to find the other gardens which was supposed to be right next to it but just ended up walking round for ages before heading back!
6th May - We hiked to Manoa Falls through a jungle trail in Manoa Valley (apparently there are no snakes in Hawaii at all, which is always reassuring!) We tried a Hawaiian 'Puka Dog' for dinner. Really weird. I had a vegetarian one with garlic and lemon dressing and banana salsa stuff and Frankie had garlic and lemon with chilli and mango salsa. Wouldn't have another one but least we tried it...
7th May - We spent the day on the beach. We tried lemon iced tea because its what everyone seems to drink out here. Decided it was rank.
8th May - We went sightseeing in Waikiki and Ala Moana looking at all the 'Lost' film locations! At night we watched the fireworks show on the beach and a hula dance.
9th May - We went snorkelling in Hanauma Bay. Cost $5 each to get in and we had to watch a cheesy american video about the sealife. The water was freezing though and it was quite a long journey back so we only stayed for a couple of hours. We saw some really cool fish though. We had a Dominos for dinner but Frankie was still hungry afterwards :( We both agreed it was smaller than normal larges!
10th May - Chilled on the beach. Got 'Angels and Demons' book. Got some fresh melon and papya for lunch (papya is now one of our favourite fruits). Had a hostel BBQ for dinner and sat round chatting to a few people for a bit before going to bed after getting freaked out by surrounding cockroaches looking for food!
11th May - North Shore - took two buses to get there and we missed out stop for waimea Bay but ended up at Sunset Beach but it was beautiful anyway and we were glad we stopped there. We stayed there for a few hours, but the water got deep quickly and there was rocks further out - big waves - but it wasn't busy at all and looked kinda like the beaches in 'Lost' which was awesome.
12th May - Walked down to Market Place and shopped a bit (well I did) then we caught the bus to the north east shore (Kualoa Ranch). We went on a one hour horse ride which was more than enough time really. Frankie rode Ace and I rode Blackie. It was fantastic with amazing views. We had to ride Western style which was okay 'cause you just had to side there and relax (and hold on!) We got to see the setting for '50 First Dates' and the 'Lost' submarine explosion.
13th May - rented a surfboard from the hostel. Frankie was standing up straight away but i was rubbish and kept falling off or getting dragged under by the board. Did that for a couple of hours anyway (obviously I didnt stay out there that long because the other surfers were gonna run me down!!) We had a spicy swordfish salad for dinner but Frankie was still hungry so he got a macdonalds then we watched 'Slumdog Millionaire' at the hostel's movie night (it was good but the guy from 'Skins' was a bit of a poo actor)
14th May -got a couple of body boards and went down to the pier and sea wall. We caught my first wave together which was cool! had to rent flippers because without them my kick wasnt strong enough to catch waves! Had a frappecinno in starbucks for lunch. Later we sunbathed then at night we went down and got the 2nd Twilight book.
15th May - Did laundry (and saw a little mousey dying... it was sad) We needed lots of quarters and it didn't really clean our stuff amazingly well. Gay. Chilled at the hostel for a bit and looked into where we wanna go and what we wanna do in Fiji. Went to the net cafe and rushed to upload all our photos as quick as we could. 40 mins came to $6. Sat under rain clouds on the beach. Got some pizzas from supermarket and a raspberry vodka for Fiji because alcohol is apparently so expensive out there. I bought a new belly bar (which is all twisty and cool) because my other one was going a bit ranky
16th May - We went body boarding again which was awesome and we were catching loads of waves!! But then I snapped my body board in half when I'd caught a wave - i think it got stuck on a rock. its really rocky and shallow there. Frankie had to do it without flippers but I rented some again. Went food shopping, and treated ourselves to Ben and Jerry's cookie dough because it was on offer! (It wasn't expensive honestly!) Then I wrote alllllll this blog with Frankie reading me all the stuff we did from his diary.
Tomorrow we're leaving at 5am to catch our 8am flight to Fiji.
Friday, May 8, 2009
29th April - 1st May 2009 (Travelling from Mexico to Hawaii)
We left Meson De Tulum in Cancun at like 5am to catch an ADO shuttle to the airport for our flight at 9.05am. We were kinda glad to be leaving Mexico now after the swine flu pandemic thingy but it was a bit scary being all ccramped up on the plane. We changed in Houston then flew to San Diego.
When we got to San Diego (USA Hostels this time) we rushed out to get some money out to post our Mexican purchases home. But neither of our cards were working!! So Frankie rang his bank and got his card unblocked, and we were all happy and relieved that we could get money and send back our stuff! Now our bags are a bit lighter. We did laundry (which we really really needed to do) and a load of other boring chores and stuff before getting free beer and pizza at the hostel's 15th year birthday party.
We left to catch our Greyhound bus to LA at 8.30am and got there at about midday. We then caught 2 buses and the metro underground to the airport and finally got there at around 2.30 ish. It was a 6 hour flight to Hawaii from LA. We saw one poo poo film and they didnt FEED US!! We had one tiny dribble of drink and that was it. We were starving when we got to our Hawaii hostel at about 9pm. Don't fly with American Airlines...
When we got to San Diego (USA Hostels this time) we rushed out to get some money out to post our Mexican purchases home. But neither of our cards were working!! So Frankie rang his bank and got his card unblocked, and we were all happy and relieved that we could get money and send back our stuff! Now our bags are a bit lighter. We did laundry (which we really really needed to do) and a load of other boring chores and stuff before getting free beer and pizza at the hostel's 15th year birthday party.
We left to catch our Greyhound bus to LA at 8.30am and got there at about midday. We then caught 2 buses and the metro underground to the airport and finally got there at around 2.30 ish. It was a 6 hour flight to Hawaii from LA. We saw one poo poo film and they didnt FEED US!! We had one tiny dribble of drink and that was it. We were starving when we got to our Hawaii hostel at about 9pm. Don't fly with American Airlines...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
moving on to valladolid from merida 27th-29th
headed down to the merida hammock store and got a rainbow coloured hammock. $250 peso´s, which is about 15 pounds!! heading back to the hostel we stopped off at cafe`el hoyo, for a frape.
the cafe was cool but it smelled a bit of poo adn the frape´s wereñ´t as great as the first time we had been there!! still waspretty nice to have a cold drink even if the ice was probably made from their shady tap water.
we cought the Ado buss from the merida buss station to Valladolid, which tok about 2 hours, when we got to valladolid it was a pretty undeveloped town in pretty much every sense. this even included teh pavements which seemed to have electric wires poping out of the floor every so oftern.
we went strait to one of the hotels sugested in the bok, was 180 pesso´s for the night,we aid the guy after seeing the truely rancid room. we headed out to see if we could find anywere nicer for the next night. tho as soon as we went in the hotel valladolid we decided to just pay for anothing rom and spendboth night there! unlike he lily hotel it had air con, a nice bed and didnt look like it would give us desseases saying there!!!
got up early the next day and cought a collectivo to Chichen Itza, (the most famouseof the mayan ruins in the Yakatan) got there about 9:30 and it was prety much deserted. wandered round there for a few hours, whcich was pretty epic then cought a collectivo back to Valladolid.
got some lunch from cafe squimoz then got a taxi to the cenotes dzitnup, supposedly the most picturest and most photgraphed of all the cinotes! appart from the staires that ran down into the cave it was amazing. a huge cave with stalegtights hanging down and birds flying in and out of the opening at the roof of the cave, as wel as the crystal clear pol at the bottom. unfortunatley the cave was so huge it was pretty difficult to take any decent pictures of it!
headed back to town, got some fod for that evening (salad wraps) had a frape fron the cafe squimoz and spent the evening watching random american films with spanish subtitles.
the cafe was cool but it smelled a bit of poo adn the frape´s wereñ´t as great as the first time we had been there!! still waspretty nice to have a cold drink even if the ice was probably made from their shady tap water.
we cought the Ado buss from the merida buss station to Valladolid, which tok about 2 hours, when we got to valladolid it was a pretty undeveloped town in pretty much every sense. this even included teh pavements which seemed to have electric wires poping out of the floor every so oftern.
we went strait to one of the hotels sugested in the bok, was 180 pesso´s for the night,we aid the guy after seeing the truely rancid room. we headed out to see if we could find anywere nicer for the next night. tho as soon as we went in the hotel valladolid we decided to just pay for anothing rom and spendboth night there! unlike he lily hotel it had air con, a nice bed and didnt look like it would give us desseases saying there!!!
got up early the next day and cought a collectivo to Chichen Itza, (the most famouseof the mayan ruins in the Yakatan) got there about 9:30 and it was prety much deserted. wandered round there for a few hours, whcich was pretty epic then cought a collectivo back to Valladolid.
got some lunch from cafe squimoz then got a taxi to the cenotes dzitnup, supposedly the most picturest and most photgraphed of all the cinotes! appart from the staires that ran down into the cave it was amazing. a huge cave with stalegtights hanging down and birds flying in and out of the opening at the roof of the cave, as wel as the crystal clear pol at the bottom. unfortunatley the cave was so huge it was pretty difficult to take any decent pictures of it!
headed back to town, got some fod for that evening (salad wraps) had a frape fron the cafe squimoz and spent the evening watching random american films with spanish subtitles.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Sunday 26th April 2009
Hiiii everyone, and welcome to our bloggy blog blog - i had a brainwave that it might be easier than facebooking all the time! But it might not be...
We don't really know how to use this thing and as we're being timed on every computer we log into some things I write might not make sense! But hi.
We're in Merida again. Travelled up from Campeche this morning by ADO coach and we're just staying here for one night and then tomorrow we´re going to Valladollid (so that we can see the ruins in Chichen Itza). We're staying at the Nomadas hostel again so we got to chill by the pool for a bit when we got here!
We tried to buy a hammock today but its a sunday and the shop was closed so we're going to try again tomorrow! Theres quite a lot of cool stuff to buy in Merida though so we're going to have a look round tonight for anything else to buy. We've got some extra money (kinda) because we've been so super stingey!
Anyway, thats pretty much all we´ve done today. Nooowwww, I'm going to send everyone the link so that they can read my work-of-art blog entry! Exciting stuff!
We don't really know how to use this thing and as we're being timed on every computer we log into some things I write might not make sense! But hi.
We're in Merida again. Travelled up from Campeche this morning by ADO coach and we're just staying here for one night and then tomorrow we´re going to Valladollid (so that we can see the ruins in Chichen Itza). We're staying at the Nomadas hostel again so we got to chill by the pool for a bit when we got here!
We tried to buy a hammock today but its a sunday and the shop was closed so we're going to try again tomorrow! Theres quite a lot of cool stuff to buy in Merida though so we're going to have a look round tonight for anything else to buy. We've got some extra money (kinda) because we've been so super stingey!
Anyway, thats pretty much all we´ve done today. Nooowwww, I'm going to send everyone the link so that they can read my work-of-art blog entry! Exciting stuff!
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