We were only planning to stay at Blue lagoon resort for 2 nights before heading to Beachcomber island to end our Fiji holiday. After a few hours here, Cj was adament that he didn't want to go to Beachcomber. He has been before and describes it as a not very party island with rubbish food. Its supposed to be the party island but the partying depends on who's on the island.
If we were to stay at blue lagoon, it meant losing our money and spending more to stay the extra 2 nights. Cj, decided the next morning that he really didn't want to go to beachcomber so he booked us in for 2 more nights.
In the end we were so glad we stayed. Blue lagoon was our favourite place and we met loads of really cool people.
As soon as we got to the island i noticed that they had a village tour in the afternoon. I was desperate to do a village tour on one of this islands and this was the only day they were doing it whilst we were there. So i signed Cj and myself up. We had to get on a boat to the village island. We arrived to a boat full of Fiji kids on their way back home for the weekend. There was a large school on this island so many kids board during the week and go home for the weekend. We walked through a forest path into a huge field which was the schools rugby pitch. The pitch was surrounded by class rooms. We were aloud to have a peek into the classrooms and some of the students sang to us. They were very good. Our tour guide took us to the village were the fijians live. It felt like a really nice community village. The village had 3 churches, a mini mart shop and a village hall. In the hall the locals put on a little market for us. I bought a turtle necklace and a wooden ornament.
Saturday night was party night. So after dinner a large group of us rounded up around a table to play ring of fire. It was fun, there was probably too many of us to really play the game properly. One of the guys in our dorm room named Mike was actually below Cj's bunk bed on mantaray island. He was english but had been living in new zealand for the past 2 years. He was a character. He joined us for dinner most nights. On party night he was pretty funny. I can only describe him as Alan from the hangover. He did get quite drunk and did some funny things. We also met the lovely Sonia on this night. She is an LA girl and gave us loads of tips about our american adventure. We met Jeff too, who is Blue lagoons dive instructor. A local Fijian and one of the friendliest people we have met. Cj got noticed as a Bradley Cooper look alike so we joke that we have The hangover crew with Alan too.
That was round one, game 2 was a funny game. Jeff told us to get into groups of 5. Boys being boys decided to make a group together (Cj included) as they thought their manliness would win them a bottle of champagne. This was until the game rules were announced. Now we were laughing at the guys as we had to get rather close to our team mates and try and pop a balloon between the legs of the person in front, by thrusting our hips forward (basically a rude move). So now we knew this detail, imagine the guy's reaction when they realised their manliness would be demolished. To be fair to them, they came 3rd and actually really went for it. It was hilarious. I was in a group of girls and we came second.
The third and final game of the night was a dizzy one. We had to again get into groups. This time the guy's split up. We had to take it in turns to run to the pole at the end and run around the pole 5 times with our head down. I should mention that there was several free shots as well as champagne throughout these games so this spinning sent most people on the floor. Cj and myself were in the winning team so we got some champagne. I actually did ok with the free alcohol on games night.
Once the games was over we all played another game of ring of fire followed by a very entertaining game of Zimmi zimmi. This was Brent, a canadians speciality so he led the game whilst we all tried to get the hang of the rhythm and remember our number to call out.
The drinking games started to fizzle out as people started to get up and dance. An American couple put on a show on the dance floor with some funny moves.
The night didnt end there as Jeff performed some fire dancing as we all sat in the beach. some people also went skinny dipping (including Cj). Although it was the girls who were the brave one's and did it properly. The boys kept their boxers on. One of the girls told us that the plankton in the sea glows in the dark at night. A few of the girls and myself waited to see if this was true before we went into the sea. Unfortunately there was no plankton so we stayed dry whilst everyone else came out wet. The night ended when some of the guys jumped in the pool and security got involved.
The next morning we said goodbye to quite a few of the guys as they moved onto their next islands. We chilled out in the day and in the evening we watched Walter Mitty as it was movie night.
Our last day was spent soaking up the sun rays and swimming in the sea. We had dinner with another couple from Manchester who are also travelling the world. We met them on out first night on this island.
We were really sad to leave Blue Lagoon. We had so much fun and met some really cool people that we are still in touch with now.
We head back to Nadi. It was a long trip back as it was 4 hours on the Yasawa flyer.
We only stayed in Nadi for 2 nights before our flight to LA. we didnt do anything on these days. We just caught up on admin as it had been 2 weeks.
We almost left Cj's phone charging in the hotel as we arrived at the airport and remembered he forgot his phone. Luckily there was a very nice man from smuggles cove (staff) who rang the manager to bring Cj's phone in a taxi. We were very lucky we got his phone back, especially as we use the apps on his phone to sort all accommodation and money.
Amazing sun set on our last night at Blue Lagoon.
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