Our journey to fiji....

So as many of you will now know we were not keen on australia so fiji could not come quicker! On the day we actually left sydney to catch our plane it was all very surreal! We was pleased as we had managed to get our luggage weight down to the correct amount with 6kg to spare! So we were more chilled and very relieved :) we had 2 flights to catch to get to fiji both with air new zealand of course its always a worry that your bag will not make it onto your connecting flight! But we just stayed positive. Sydney airport had free wifi so we took this chance to update the world......via facebook! And tell everyone we were off! My parents had been away on holiday we hadnt spoke to them for 2 weeks :( and now we were off to fiji we didnt no when we would next chat to them :( but i sent them a whats app message to update them :) we couldnt wait to here about there cruise ! they had been to see the northern lights :) we had been sending them pics and videos keeping them updated while they were away so on there return they will be inundated with messages! 

We kept waiting for announcements of our flight but nothing happened.....we made our way to the gate of our own accord as we didnt want to miss the flight! We waited and waited and waited.......it was now ten minutes before our flight was due to take off and we were getting slightly concerned as we had a connecting flight to catch! And the time between flights was only 1hr 15 minutes! We were finally called for boarding! We had a lovely pair of seats by the window which i had arranged a couple of months before via email! And before we knew it we were off! And as we began our climb into the sky we had a lovely view of sydney city including the opera house :) i was so pleased as flying into sydney we had sat on the wrong side of he plane for the view! I managed to get a sneaky pic on my phone!....

For some reason i felt anxious on this flight....infact i had been feeeling more and more anxious flying as time went on and the more flights we did the more anxious i got, it really irritated me actually as i do suffer with anxiety and before me & luke became a couple i had it quite bad all the time but since being with luke i havnt really suffered with any bad episodes! However flying seemed to be setting it off ever so sligtly! i didnt feel terribly ill like i used to but i definately felt on edge, anxiety is such a horrible thing to have and unless you have it you dont really understand how shit it can make you feel! And i was annoyed with myself that i was now starting to get anxious over flying! It wont ever stop me going on holiday but i dont want to feel rough everytime we go! 

It was a good flight anyway a little terbulance at the start but good, the food wasnt to nice though. There were two films we wanted to watch frozen and 12 years a slave, we decided to watch 12 years a slave first and frozen on the next flight! It was a true story and was very sad but a bloody good film! It was on for a long time so when it had finished we were getting ready to land! Perfect i get to get off this plane for a bit! As we came into auckland airport the view of new zealand was stunning and i kinda wish we was hopping off here for a bit! And we got another good view of the city :) We did land about 30 minutes late so it was a bit of a rush to get to our next gate! With cheeky stop at duty free to get a "real" bar of chocolate! A toblerone! And it was scrummy :) of course we didnt eat the whole thing it was very sickly! 

Onto our next flight auckland-nadi :) this flight was good, it was a smaller plane so slightly less leg room :( we got comfy and watched frozen......and i have to say there was a bit to much singing for us!! We enjoyed the film every disney film is good:) but everytime it got into the story somebody burst into song! I no that all disney films have singing but it was like every 7 minutes throughout the whole film! Anyway we enjoyed it :) and while we were watching it we got served the tastiest dinner we had ever had on a flight ...... Gnocci with butter beans and mushrooms! It was so nice :) i felt less anxious on this flight :) and as we made our way down to the airport for landing it was sunset and the view was stunning the sky was just so bright with beautiful colours :) we got off the plane the first thing to hit us was the heat! Even at 6.30pm it was 30 degrees! We made our way to passport control and as we did we were greeted by a group of fijian people singing to us :) it was a really good welcome to fiji :) we felt good :) 

.....coming into fiji was so pretty

....and the sunset on arrival was must beautiful

We collected our baggage.....mine being one of the last few! Litrally! We were getting worried about it! But all the luggage made it and in one piece! 

We had booked a tour with fiji experience so made our way to there office :) on the way collecting a shell necklace for free :) we picked up our tickets and were given a driver to take us to our starting hotel....nadi bay resort.

When we arrived to our resort we were pleased....it was so laid back, we had a lovely greeting & when we were taken to our room there was 2 fijian guys singing by the restaurant ! Our room was big with seperate bathroom & had a kettle & fridge! Perfect for our first night in fiji! We went to the bar and had a nice cold drink & ordered a pizza to share it was a great first night.....tomorrow we were going to start our tour with feejee experience & we couldnt wait!