Nadi!!!!

We finally got to Nadi today. I can't write too much right now because I only have about 15 minutes of internet left.

We woke up this morning to something we haven't gotten in days-- no rain. There was even a small batch of blue sky visible at one point. We left aboud 11:30 with Jai. There was some confusion because we met another guest who was trying to get to Suva, Fiji's capitol, for a UN peace meeting. He was a former member of parliament before the coup. He had arranged another transport for us, two 4-wheel cars. They didn't show up when planned, so we took the minivan instead.

All the floods were gone, hardly any water on the road, intil we got to Ba. That was the town that was under 12 feet of water a day ago, and the road was still flooded. We waited about an hour at the highway with hundreds of others, until Jai and a few others decided to try a back road around the flood.

We drove for seeminly hours on a tiny, muddy, bumpy dirt road through the mountains, which was terrefying. After having to get out to walk (my feet are still covered in mud) and have the minivan be towed by a different 4-wheel car, we finally got to the other side of Ba. It felt like a micarcle we got through it, because the whole time we thought we were on the wrong road. We then drove towards Nadi, and got to see the flood from the other side. No cars had gotten through it yet. I could right hundreds of pages on that journey, but I don't have time right now.

Apon arriving in Nadi after a 6 hour journey we went to the airport to see if there was a flight tonight, which there wasn't. We tried to get a room at multiple hotels for the night, but everywhere was completely booked up. We finally found space at the SkyLodge, a dormitory for kind of travel backpackers. We're staying in a group room with only one shower and one toilet for about 30 beds. We had to buy towels. Although it's kind of fun, I would so much rather a real hotel room.

I can't wait until we get to Christchurch.