Hailey arrived in town extremely late on Friday night or rather I should say Saturday morning...don't worry I definately didn't let her sleep in! We ordered our bountiful baskets and went to pick them up first thing Saturday morning....on our way back to the house we stopped at Old Navy because they were having a sale from 7 to 10 only so we thought we would check that out too...we did. 60% swim suits. We each got one to start this summer off! With our morning already so productive we couldn't stop there, so off to the dog park we went. It was so much fun! Kruz and Pumpkin were loving every second...Kruz I think just followed and copied every other dog there, while miss pumpkin was a little more content playing with her toy and visiting with everyone who adored her ;) It was a great way to start the morning off with them.. ya know get them tired for the rest of the day! Ha! They got pretty dirty/muddy from the park so we stopped by A+ Pet Supply to try out their new self serve dog wash center. I must say it was so convenient! I would totally go back to that place in a second! Brilliant.
Now that it is only mid morning. Yes only 10:30 now. We went back to pick up Carli and Kyle and find a few others to go down to the college sand pits to play some sand volleyball! Mitch and Kade joined us in playing. First off it was the most beautiful day we have had yet - and secondly, glad we all were a little rusty....It was so much fun to be out there playing in the sunshine! Love this STG Sun!! We spent most the rest of the afternoon there. They have made that spot such a nice location. Before it was a pretty un-useful area.
Now we decided to lay out in the sun for a bit while hay had to work on some things for work...boo. A movie is definately in order...we went to "Soul Surfer." We all enjoyed it very much and probably shed a tear too many. Yes I know, we're ridiculous.
Sunday we were off to church and I had to teach...glad that is over. I always get so nervous. Anyways we definately had some great relaxing time all together.Basically it was a perfect weekend. I always say this...but I really wish we all lived closer to eachother. LOVE YOU SISTERS!! xoxo
Terri and Keri came out to close up with a song. They have such different voices, but it sounded really great together. It was a great performance. 
So sometime in the air we are probably into the next day by now and then cross the international date line so lost another day.....ugh! Anyways, we get to Nadi and have to head over to catch our next domestic flight to Kadavu. I must say that was the most smooth transition we have ever had at the Nadi airport. I mean "Sanga Na Langa" can only work so much for me in the airport. Yes I do understand "FIJI TIME" all too well. However, the flight was great...45 minutes, not bad. Some guys that work with the resort we are staying at, picked us up to go and hop on the boat (maybe I should say a "dingy") that would get us to the resort.
Yes, we arrived. Matava Resort is where we resided the whole week. It was beautiful. Eco-friendly. No computers. No TV. No phone. No real world. Just utter beauty surrounding you and adventure to await. Amazing. It was perfect - ok perfect until we had to climb the hundred some odd stairs to get to our bure. Ok once I saw the view I won't complain about the stairs. There was just our family and 3 fishermen from Austrailia that were there staying at the resort. Can't say it can hold much more than that Ha! It was great. Mom, Dad, and Carli had the highest climb to their place. Kyle and I were next below, and then Steve and Hailey were just below us in their bure. We got all settled in and enojyed a little relaxation......
One afternoon hanging out after diving, we were sitting for lunch and a boat showed up. A lady, Nancy, and her son Ben (ironic that they were from Utah) were going around Kadavu letting the resorts know about their non-profit organization they created to help villages on Kadavu use their own water resources to have fresh drinking water. It was really neat speaking with them and hearing about all of the wonderful things they have done to help the villagers on Kadava. Their non-profit is called Wananavu Kadavu.
So Fiji has some amazing things to offer tourists other than diving and sitting in the sun. We got to go and visit waterfalls agian. We have been able to do this in the past before and we loved it! We all were so excited to go. It was great because we first had to go through the village to get to the falls. It was a lot of fun to meet some of the other people that live in the village. A lot of the staff were from there. 
Back to diving...Our dive crew was so much fun. Simon was the "boat captain" and referred himself as the "boss." Tey was our divemaster. They were lots of fun and were such happy people. Since we were diving, we all got spend lots of time together on the boat. so there is a dive site that is near by called "Manta -Reef." I'm sure you can already guess what we were going to be able to see there. Yes. MANTA RAYS!! :) So far our dive master has said ok today on this dive you are going to see this this and this and he has been right on everything so far.....so when today when Tey said ok "you are going to see Manta Rays cleaning today....we were all so excited and could hardly wait!! So the pool is open and we all go diving. We get down into the dive about 2 minutes I think and that is when we saw our first Manta Ray. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. It was so graceful as it moved through the water. It was huge! It was 15-20ft. in diameter. AMAZING! Anyways the 2 dives we were there diving with the Manta's and it was absolutely an incredible experience. Kyle had gotten his foot cut up a little today, so Maggie had to dr. him up a bit and get it all cleaned up. poor guy.
