Our Trip to Fiji - Bula Bula!

We had the opportunity to go to Fiji on a business trip the last week in March 2008. Aimee enjoyed meeting the natives! These young men performed the "Fire Lighting Ceremony" every evening at our hotel.


At the "Welcome to Fiji" Dinner our first night on the islands the menu included roasted pig. We thought this would make a fun picture. By the way . . . Aimee puckered up but never really touched the pig!!!


We enjoyed drinking smoothies from "New Zealand Natural", eating lunch at "Hard Rock Cafe Fiji", and visiting with many of the local Fijians who were very warm and friendly. We did lots of relaxing, this hammock was off the patio of our room, and spent lots of time in the water.

We also had the opportunity to go to a local ward for church on Sunday. Many of the men had on Lava Lavas, instead of long pants, like this brother did. The spirit was very strong and the people sang like angels. It was one of the highlights of the trip!


Allyn found this blue starfish when he was snorkeling off the coast of Bounty Island on Wednesday. We were sure it was a sign that BYU would win their first round NCAA Basketball game on Thursday against Texas A & M.
We watched the game via the internet in the Business Center of the hotel. It was a lesson in frustration as the Cougars played poorly and the internet was very, very slow. Several times the coverage would freeze with the ball on its way to the basket and resume several seconds later. We are still not sure exactly what happened in certain parts of the game, but have high hopes for 2009!

The scenery in Fiji was very beautiful . . .



We took a one hour ship ride from Denarau Island, where our hotel was, to Bounty Island, where they filmed Survivor Fiji. There was a tropical storm on way over and we all got wet as we were transported from the ship to island via small motor boats! This video is of Allyn and Aimee snorkeling . . . even I had a tough time telling exactly who I was filming?!?