Question: How do you manage to have 1 hour at the beach, 2 happy hours, 3 showers, 6 meals (2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners), a 6 hour plane flight, a 7 hour road trip, 14 hours of sleep, and squeeze in laundry, grocery shopping and drafting this blog post all in 1 day?
Answer: You live December 13th twice. Yes, we may have just unlocked the secret of time travel (or experienced the oddity of the International Date Line for the very first time).
Sunday, December 13, our last day in Fiji, was spent driving through the rainforest along the King’s Road back to Nadi. After a pretty amazing drive, we stopped for lunch in Lautoka before boarding the flight to Honolulu at 6.10 PM.
After crossing the IDL that evening we arrived in Honolulu at 1.40 AM on Sunday, December 13. We find this very amusing and it was especially fun to hear the pilot on the plane struggle to explain Honolulu time when we left Fiji, “Local time in Honolulu is 1 hour ahead… umm, and 1 day behind”.
A Fijian house in the rainforest
A rainforest town in the distance
The Fijians really don’t like speeding. The national speed limit is 80 km/h
After driving through the rainforest, the northwestern part of Viti Levu was much drier and almost deserty in some places
Our rental car
Taking a break in Lautoka
Lunch no. 1. Probably the worst pizza in the world
Happy hour no. 1
Dinner no. 1
On the airplane to Honolulu
Sunset over Fiji – or somewhere in the Pacific
2 AM in Honolulu. Starting the day over
Breakfast no. 2
Waikiki
Lunch no. 2
It’s Christmasy here
Hawaiian version of “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas”
Sunset at Waikiki beach