Saturday, July 12, 2008

Paradise Found

After waiting for hours on standby, we got lucky and got seats on the plane. The flight got delayed by an hour because we were waiting for a group of 40 people.

Gin and I were so tired that we fell asleep before the plane took off. By the time I woke up there was only 2 hours of flight time left. I had slept about 8 hours of the flight time.

We landed at the airport in Nadi at 5:30am. Octopus resort was going to pick us up between 8:30 and 9:00am, so we had planety of time to kill at the airport. After changing into a fresh pair of clothes, Gin and I felt like a million bucks. It was 8:45am and I was getting concerned if the resort people would come pick us up. Every little car/van that passed by, I thought it was there for us. Once a car came to pick up someone and I was so sure that it was for us that I was about to ask the guy, but the car looked so run down, I didn't have the nerves to ask the guy. Anyhow, after nervous anticipation of the pickup, finally, the octopus resort van came to pick us up. It was actually a nice van with the name of the resort around it and all. Finally, I was able to relax!


After an hour and half boat ride to the resort, we got to the most
beautiful beach/island I had ever seen in my life called the Waya island part of the Yasawa island group. It was absolutely stunning. Gin and I couldn't believe it was actually real. I've seen pictures of places like that, but had never seen a place like that before in real life. It was all real!



With a nice welcome song with a nice welcome drink, we were introduced to the staff and given our "bure" (hut) keys. Once Gin and I were escorted to our bure, we were just so astonished at how cute the little bure was. It was a perfect little beachfront bure for our honeymoon with our private little beach, beach chairs and a hammock. It was secluded and away from the crowd.

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