Jodi's Discoveries: Shopping, Massage and Private Dinner, Day #4

I think I'm still on Pacific time, because I woke up at 5:40am in the morning, which would have been 10:40am Seattle time. I really tried to sleep in! Wes and I headed down to the Bistro for continental breakfast and had pretty much the same thing we had the day before. The clouds were still there, but the sun was peaking through and we had a promising day of good weather.
After breakfast we tried to buy 7 days of internet, but had lots of troubles, so we are still going on the pay by minute plan.

We got ready and walked down to the Arts Village (where we ate lunch yesterday) to check out all the tourist shops and grab some lunch. The shops were pretty much full of junk and were like 2nd hand tourist shops. They were some of the worst tourist shops I've been in. I'm going to wait till we go into Suva next Tuesday to buy little gifts in the markets. It was about 11:30am when we were finished walking through all the shops, so we grabbed a bite to eat at Oasis and restaurant in the little village. We shared a lobster pizza and shrimp cocktail. Then I got a white chocolate ice cream dream bar from Cadburry from the little market. They are so good and I haven't seen these candies in Seattle anywhere.

The sun was shining and it was perfect weather when we were walking back to the hotel. When we got back we booked a free 30 minute Swedish back massage that the hotel gives everyone. It was really good, but I'm a bit sore today from it.

After our massage it was still pretty nice out and the sun was kinda shinning, so we got our swim suits on and headed to the pool. We laid out for a while and then walked over the ocean and swam in there for a while. There really aren't waves that come in crashing like most beaches, they just wave in like a lake. So no surfing or boogie boarding around this area. The water is so warm, compared all the other places we going swimming, but it still took Wes a few minutes to get in :) He put his goggles on and tried to find treasures on the bottom of the ocean, but there was nothing but leaves and sand. Without waves we got bored pretty quick, so I jumped into the pool and we sat by the pool for a little longer.

It was almost 5pm, so we headed back to the room to get ready for our Private Dinner, which ended up overlooking the beach, instead of on the beach. Probably because our beach is only 10 to 20 feet long from the edge depending on the high or low tide. It was so pretty, we got to see the sun set and the moon rise from the perfect view we had. The meal started off with appetizers: seared tuna, a smoke salmon salad and bruschetta. They were all so yummy and the band playing over at happy hour came over and played a song for us. It was romantic, even though Wes didn't ask me to dance. He said he was too nervous, hehe. By the time we finished eating appetizers and drinking champagne it was pitch black out and really hard to see our food, but the candle light was just enough. Next they served us our entree, lobster and beef. Even though I don't like red meat very much, I still tried it and had to spit it out! Wes seemed to really like it. But the Lobster was delicious! I scarfed that down super fast. Then it was dessert time, my favorite part of the meal. They served us chocolate cake with fudge on top and vanilla ice cream. This dinner was the perfect wedding present from Christi, Ryan, Tessa, Lily, Marlene, Mel & Tony.

As we finished dessert, the moon was rising, so we watched then and then got up and walked along the deck above the beach. There were about 50 little and big crabs running around on the beach and when we walked by they would all scatter away. After our walk, we headed back to the room for the night. We've been going to bed really early, since we've been getting up so early.

Wes and I at our private dinner!