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Kim and Hayley's Excellent Adventure
Bula everyone.......
Wow, i know it has been quite a while,so very sorry about that, but once more we are back and 'NO' we have not forgotten about you all.
So Fiji, Wow, beautiful, just idyllic in every way. So what did we do while sitting on beaches topping up our tans....
Well...............................
We arrived from a raining Auckland into a very warm Nadi one of the main towns on the main island. Checked into our hostel which turned out to be a resort but with hostel prices (very hapy about this) Bar by the pool (yes pool) So as you do after a flight, 'yep' you relax for the day, especially when our friends from New Zealand (Tom, Paul and Amanda) where arriving only two days later.
So we chilled....... or roasted..... by the pool.
After a while, half a day of seeing massive very atletic Fiji guys jump in and out of the pool i asked one of them who they were? His name was Natalie Talay the NO.8 for the international Fiji Rugby team, and was also a player on the barbarians.....anyways it turned out they had a game on the Saturday against Italy, and he said he would get us tickets.......... brilliant!!!
So Tom, Paul and Amanda arrived and the party began, we met a local guy who worked at the resort called Alfi and he took us to his village to meet the people and have the most amasing food cooked by the women of the village. This was after we had been mud wresteling in some natral mud pools down the road. The natral Spas are unknown by tourests and there for are just little dug out holes in the ground, which you get into, cover yourself with mud, stand in the sun to dry and then go to 2 other pools to wash it off.... great fun and 'yes' we have some good pictures of it as well!!!!!!!
So that weekend, we went to see the rugby in the next town....... all of us had our fiji flags signed by the whole team and wore them with pride as we were 5 of a very small eurpean crowd...... It was so cool though, and 'yes' we were on TV!!!!!! hahahahahaha
It was such a cool day and topped opff with a very cool evening as we were invited out with a few of the team member to help them celebrate as 'Yes' they did win... and i'm sure its because of opur screaming!!!!! hahahaha
So out we go...... Tom and Paul on complete cloud 9 as they worship rugby!!!! only to find that once we arrived in one bar, the whole Italian team walked in the other door...... so there is 5 English people hanging out with international rugby stars!!!!!!! Crazy... and 'yes' we did have to pinch ourselves!!!! hahahaha
So the fololowing week we decided to go off and discover the islands.....
We got a Island pass to the yasawa Islands..... starting on Southsea island, which happens to be one of the smallest inhabited islands in the world!!! Small....... well put it this way, you could walk around it in 4 Minutes....... if you strolled, otherwise about 2 minutes......
We stayed on there for 2 nights, one of which me and Kim thought we were pirates dues to our new found friend Bounty Rum 'Arrrrrrr Matey'
It was so beautiful on there, although all you could really do was lay in the sun, or swim in the sea or in the pool or eat!!!!
The visibility in the water was unreal... and yes we did see nemo a few times...
After our two days we headed to another island called Manta Ray Island, which was totally different, alot bigger, more nature but just as beautiful..... again we stayed there for 2 nights and played beach vollyball..... sunbathed, kyaked to another beach, but mostly snorkled......... you could swim out in the sea and the current would take you along and all you had to do was look at the fish......... I really wish we had a camera as the waterlife was just amasing, and Paul said it was almost as good as the great barrier reef!!!!!!
So a very sad fairwell to the beautiful Bounty advert islands and we headed back to Nadi.......
So many of you may have heard what we did next but just incase you haven't here is the story.
So we arrived back to our Resort and welcomed by the staff, but welcomed and then told to have some interviews for the TV.... laughing we said we might but just wanted to go to bed after a long boat ride back to the main land....... so a quick shower and grabbed some food only to have an english lady ask us if we had filled in the forms......... No we hadn't and we really didn't want to...... but she then asked if she could just interview us on camera anyways.... so we took it in turns me Kim and Paul all to be asked stupid questions about ourselves......
thinking no more of it and stupidly not really asking what it was all for, we had a phone call on the monday from the same lady, Rebecca, Who said she would like to offer both me and Kim a place to be test run dummies on the Celebrity Love Island.....
hahahahahahahahaha
All paid and looked after we agreed and entered a signed agreement with Granada not to say a thing to anyone about it...... of course we called home and then e-mailed a few 100 people to tell them..... hahahahaha
So after having a week paid by them to hang around and wait for filming, Paul and Tom left to go to LA and Amanda stayed with us for the week on the coral coast in a lovelt resort called mango bay, where we met three other people who where on the same thing, although weren't supposed to say anything to anyone about it, another backpacker told us who was on it and we all got chatting and they all seemed pretty nice.
So a goodbye to Amanda and then the next sunday we began to be celebrities........ picked up at 9am.... ahhhhhhh of all the morning to oversleep yep we did it this morning after watching the world cup late that evening ... well not really evening more like 3am in the morning, so in bed by 5am plus........ yep to be woken up by someone saying it 9:10 arn't you girls getting picked up soon........ ahhhhhhhhhh not packed and very tired running about the room trying to get it all packed in a record time, only to find out that our ride was late anyways.... typical...............
To be continued as i have now run out of time on the computer.... sorry guys...... xxxxx
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