Castaway! (Nadi, Fiji)

So people make a big deal about the words "cyclone" and "evacuation", but that really overdramatizes the whole event. It's really not that bad.

But to that later.

Right after posting my last blog I went to the shuttle pick up zone and ran into three other people who were going to Octopus Resort as well (and whom I am still hanging out with after all of us escaped the island). We all went down and took the boat out to the island. It was a little iffy weather-wise on the way there, but when we got there it was fantastic and we immediately spent the rest of the day on the beach, tanning, reading, swimming, snorkelling. It was exactly what I had imagined of Fiji.

The next couple days.... not so much.

It started raining the next day and didn't really stop till now.

The highlights of the rest of the trip was visiting a local island and seeing a bit truer side of Fiji, a quiz night/talent show (Dancing Quenn will never be the same for me. Don't ask.) and leaving by way of hiking through mud and forest, rolling a boat unto t