After a nice day in Suva, we were looking to getting into Savusavu as it looked to be another relaxing port where the prospect of the beach beckoned. Tori and Andrew had a shore excursion early in the morning, so Rob and I took the opportunity to have a sleep in before going up to the buffet for a late breakfast. While eating, we heard over the PA that 2 of the 4 tenders had broken down from Dravuni Island (something to do with the engines) and so there was a limited service to Savusavu. This mean that by the time we got to get tickets to come off the ship, we were about 10 tickets behind the current tender call, so we had a while to go. By the time we finally got called up and had boarded the tender headed for Savusavu it was fast approaching noon.
On arrival to the island we bumped into Andrew and Tori who had just finished their tour to the pear farm and so we walked the main street of Savusavu looking at the local souvenir stores and markets before deciding on a café/beer garden for lunch, chosen due to the rowdy Aussie crowd (all from the ship) and the music coming from within. The locals were extremely friendly and were quite patient putting up with all us Aussies from the ship lol. I wasn't feeling in the eating mood since I had had such a late lunch, so ordered something that was called the Kailoma special, and all fruit smoothie made from a mixture of locally grown fruits such as pineapple, papaya and banana. It had a fresh taste and not totally bad – felt quite healthy actually. The others got chicken schnitzel, chicken/salad sandwich and a massive pizza with local ingredients. Andrew also got Fiji Bitter, which is basically VB but made in Fiji, by the Fosters Group (the only group unoriginal to just put a place name followed by Bitter for a beer name…).
After lunch, we headed back to the ship because it had begun to rain (thus cancelling out any possibility of going to the beach) and the line for the tenders back to the ship had already begun to snake around the corner down the main street. We waited in line in the rain (refreshing) and it took about an hour or so to actually get onto a tender. This wait was made all the more worse because we were waiting where there was wi-fi but even though I had the password correct to logon (I guessed out of pure luck), it wouldn't connect to any websites – so close yet so far!
Once back on the ship, we just hung out in the cabin (me watching The Hills) while waiting for the ship to depart Savusavu and then had to begin to get ready for dinner because we were going up to the steakhouse for Andrew’s dinner. The dinner was absolutely fantastic with huge dishes. I had the Wagyu beef short ribs so that I can now say I have officially have had Wagyu. Rolling down the elevators completely full from dinner and very satisfied with a great birthday night (and a tad too much wine on my behalf), we attempted the musical trivia quiz that was on tonight, but failed by1 point to join the other groups ahead of us with points in the incredibly embarrassing tie breaker where a member from each team had to so sing a range of songs from musicals.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!
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