1st August - Fiji

After a panicky day of trying to get a few last minute things before we flew, we finally made it back to LAX with an unbashed rental mini van. It's tough to find a pharmay on a Sunday in a place that is huge and you don't know where you are. It was even tougher to find a beach towel in a place where there are beaches EVERYWHERE! But nevermind...

First celebrity spotting instances happened today. We saw almost the entire Chelsea squad (minus Crespo and Ballack and Jose himself) as they boarded their bus out the back of the Adidas store. Not being huge Chelsea fans, Sarah was most excited by seeing the England boys - Frankie, John and Joe.

A few bad things happened on the way to the plane, nothing major just annoyances. We weren't on a Quantas flight like our tickets told us we were but actually Air Pacific in a different terminal, no biggie I suppose. The other minor casual thing was that the Air Pacific desk was right next to the Air India desk, now I love the Indians and their cultures, but they do love to bring the whole family to the airport to say goodbye, the place was jam packed with people. We went through passport control to get some evening dinner to find no food shops at all. And lastly there was a massive American who got up to go to the plane right after our number got called...

A few good things... Second celebrity spotting instance - Will Mellor (of Hollyoaks and two pints semi-fame) was spotted around our departure gate at LAX. As we doubt he has much of a Hollywood career our theory is he may have been on our flight to join the Love Island losers? We got awesome seats on the plane, at the back of a cabin in the middle, with seats that went all the way back guilt free. The large guy got 3 seats to himself in the row to the side. And as the 11 hour journey was overnight for us, we zonked out and woke up about 2 hours from the end of the trip for breakfast. We got off the plane quick, our bags came quick, there were plenty of taxis and we managed to get to the port of Nadi, Fiji, by 6 a.m - just slightly too early for our boat at 8:30. We made the most of it and watched the sun come up. Small panic ensued after an hour of patient waiting when we were on the verge of something and this happened -

But luckily with mere seconds to spare it got out of the way -

So we made it in one piece.

First stop for us is Bounty Island! For those of you who are Monkey Island fans, that would be funny, for those of you who aren't... just laugh maniacally for fun.

Laters for now

Pricey