Bula! from Fiji

So, with the flight cancellation in Queenstown, what was supposed to be our first night in Fiji was actually spent... getting to Fiji. It wasn't too bad after all, though. Had everything worked as initially planned, we would have arrived at the hotel in Fiji at 7pm-ish, had a bite to eat and gone to sleep until it was time to hit the sun and sand. As it turned out, we arrived at 5 am the next morning, had a bite to eat (since breakfast began at 6) grabbed a few winks, then hit the sun and the sand.

Here are a few shots I took shortly after breakfast:

As mentioned, the relaxing began in earnest after a short nap and the rest of the entire stay was spent doing pretty much nothing but having a few sunbakes, watching the ocean, eating and repeating the cycle... no tours...no obligations... just doing nothing in particular. It was great!

Not to take anything away from Mallory Square, but the sunsets in Fiji were pretty good, too...
Here's one as viewed from inside the hotel room:
Susan has made a practice of photographing the boys every year at the beach as a variant sort of means of tracking their growth. In every year's picture, the boys are side by side (acting as though they like each other) facing the ocean. Here is this year's edition:


The stop in Fiji was a good way for us to take a little vacation away from the vacation. The weather couldn't have been better if we had ordered it. However, the rain gods weren't ever too far away. Here is a shot from the morning we left Fiji:
It did let up enough that we didn't get too wet on the way to the airport. We caught our flight to Auckland as scheduled and were on our way back to the USA.