BULA! from Fiji

Bula! Or Hello from Fiji!!!! On our way home Australia, we decided to take a little vacation. We figured we had a LOT to celebrate... our 3rd year wedding anniversary, a year in Perth, and well, it was our "baby moon" (so another words, last vacation before our little blessing comes). Here are some pictures and stories from the trip...

Fiji is made up of more than 300 islands and we took a day cruise one day and got to see some of those islands...













One night we had a Fijian Feasts, or as they term it a lovo. This means that they dig a pit, and allow for rocks to heat up, then place the meat on those rocks. The meat is wrapped in plant leaves, and then covered with more plant leaves and all the meat cooks within an hour. We also could eat some of their native vegetables (Jeremy tried it but, I played it SUPER safe... yet not safe enough, we both at some point or another got sick during our stay in Fiji :-(
The Fijian's sang to us, and then after the meal they had their traditional cava drink. Cava is non-alcoholic but is made from a root of a plant and if you drink enough of it, it acts as a hallucinogen. Again, I did not partake in this tradition, but Jeremy had a try. He said it basically tasted like water that had been through a dirty sock and to be honest, that is what it looked like!






An Authentic Fijian Village:

We took a tour of a village that Fijian's live in today. This village said they felt very blessed because they had two resorts close by (one being the one we were staying in) so that their people could work in these resorts.
Here is a pictures of their church.

This is a picture of plants that are drying and then after they dry, they make it things of it (we bought some little purses, mats with some native art on them, etc.)

Here is their "hospital" for the village.

A Fijian school (my favorite part, naturally...).


We LOVED the village tour and learned SO much. One of the natives sat and spoke with us about their culture and their way of life for about an hour. Some interesting points that we learned: almost all native Fijian's are Christian's, they leave their doors open at all times because they are always willing and wanting to serve each other, NEVER touch a Fijian head or else you get killed, and well lots of other interesting things...

Relaxing in Fiji...