Overview of Robinson Crusoe

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I wanted to talk more about my many wonderful adventures to Fiji as I have spent more time having fun and less time updating everyone on my trip. Of course, isn't that what I'm suppose to do? If I wrote pages and pages of stories of my trip, I would miss out on so many fun things!

Anyway, We spent a total of 6 days in Fiji and it wasn't even close to being enough time. We went to two places our whole entire time, and LOVED it and heard that we were in some of the ugliest places of Fiji. I can only imagine how much more beautiful other places would have been.

Staying at hostels we quickly realized that you make a lot of friends with people who are doing exactly what you're doing -- backpacking the area. This is an awesome way to get good connections on things to do, places to go, and have great people to hang out with. We also quickly made friends with the hostel manager who had a bit of a crush on me (maybe a bit more than a crush as he wanted to spend a ridiculous amount of money paying for plane tickets, cruises, food, and accomidations for me--when I declined he even offered to pay for Bree and Courtney to come with! hahaha, talk about Fijian Friendliness!)

Sunday morning at 8:30am Courtney and I were having a bite to eat in our breakfast nook and trying to decide what we wanted to do over the next 5 days. We decided that going on a trip to one of the nearby islands would be the best way to see more things as we here the islands were beautiful! We found one leaving in 2 hours for a 4 day, 3 night trip to the island they call "Robinson Crusoe." We quickly grabbed Bree, packed all of our bags, checked out of our room and purchased tickets to the nearby island. We were excited about the trip and couldn't wait to arrive at the island and truly enjoy paradise.

We were picked up by a rickity old van with a driver that passed two cars at a time on a double lined highway while going 40 km over the speed limit. Oh, and seatbelts are not standard in Fiji so our lives were in the hands of some crazy guy trying to quickly get us to our Cruiser Ship to take us to our Paradise Island.

No worries! After stopping for some groceries with our van driver we arrived safely at our destination, and the crew of people that we were expecting to be waiting for us at the dock consisted of an old man with practically no teeth. We didn't have to wait too long before being greated by a huge Fijian man in the smallest motorized boat who soon arrived in the muddy river to take us to our new home on the Robinson Crusoe island. We had to hurry though because it looked as though it might rain on us.

Yeah, we thought, "So much for our idea of paradise. . . . "