Bula is the common greeting around here. It means Hi and Hello. Vinaka means thank you. Bula and Vinaka are Fijian words, but everyone speaks english. It makes it very easy to get by.

Greetings from the future! Since we crossed the International Date line, we're now a day ahead.

We arrived this morning (Saturday) around 5am with a full moon to light our path. The temperature is 77 and the air is humid. Perfect tropical weather. Our flight on Air Pacific from LA was delicious. 10 hours that went by in a flash. They fed us full meals, kept our wine glass full, and woke us to a hot breakfast. There were enough empty seats that we could be comfortable and even slept a while. Special head rests that could be molded to prevent your head from flopping to either side made a big difference. And every seat had an individual tv screen in the back of the seat in front of you. We had our choice of several current movies. All this was in contrast to the flight from Fort Lauderdale to LA where they didn't even give us peanuts and every seat was taken!

Now we are at the TokaToka resort with a 'day room' so we can rest and get refreshed. We will be boarding the dive boat later this afternoon and go for our first dive.

We're using a convenient 'Internet Cafe' in the hotel to write this post. They have 3 computers hooked up to the Internet and charge 20 cents/minute. I have taken a few pictures, but haven't gotten them off the camera yet. Since this may be our last chance for 10 days, I wanted to get something posted.

Don't know if you are going to get this a day late or a day early. Have too much trouble figuring out where I am in relation to west/east coast of Continental US without trying to figure Fiji time into the equation.

WHAT--no wi-fi available on the Dive Boat? Seems you gotta get them hooked up with Coach Connect, Jim!

Have a great time (oh--I guess that goes without saying). Just know that I'll be watching and waiting to see the next post!

I guess they are having to much fun to think about us old armchair travelers.

Good for them.

Indiana Chris

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