"Tour together, Stay Together" the whole trip was cast into doubt. Thankfully, half an hour after the allotted time he arrived and off we went.
Sprits were high on the bus and once through customs at the airport, they remained at an elevated level. In fact for some young blokes they were just a little too high!!
On the plane the party continued and for at least one poor sole the excitement and anticipation was just a little too much.
Arrived in Fiji a hour late and transferred onto busses on our way to our new Island Home of Sonaisali. The bus trip was a bit of an adventure, 5 minutes out of the airport, buss No.3 started to cough and splutter with smoke billowing out of the back end. Thankfully the smoke was an oil leak and not a fire, so far so good, 12 hours in all kids accounted for and no serious injuries as yet!!
Dinner on arrival which the boys made short work of and the straight into the pool. King of the rock was in full force and kids were flung left right and centre into the pool as they fought for supremacy.
By midnight the boys are in bed and dads are having a couple of chilled beers in the bar watching the rain drops making waves in the pool.
Day 2
Breakfast was followed by the first Tribal council and Kangaroo Court, some minor misdemeanours were appropriately dealt with and then came the main order of the morning, in relation to our Chief Security Officer Paul Doyle, using his sons kit bag to smuggle illicit red wine into Fiji. However his clever and cunning plan came unstuck when one of the bottles broke and showered James's kit in shards of glass and red wine. As you can imagine Paul was mortified until he realised the one in his bag was still intact and not all was lost. When questioned Paul showed his remorse and commented "There's a bloody laundry, but I cant replace the bottle"
I'll report this afternoon and this evenings antics tomorrow.
Paul, good to see that you are keeping the standards high as Chief Security Officer, I know that your predecessors would be proud. Sally F.
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