Yesterday was a rather uneventful day and more of the same in paradise, with two exceptions - Roy completed all his hard work on our new website and launched it this morning. Hope you all like the new look and feel - And, given that the weather settled a little during the day, we headed ashore for a coffee and Elaine's exercise walk which was another record - All the way to the Plantation Resort and back.
This morning we were both awake early enough to enjoy a spectacular sunrise, but then went straight back to sleep. By the time we woke up again, the sun was shining brightly and it was time to make our way back to Port Denarau. It was hard to believe that almost two weeks had slipped by.
We had originally decided to spend the night in Wailoaloa Bay, but once we got there and discovered that getting ashore in the dinghy was going to be very precarious without the jetty that was supposed to be present and a delightful onshore swell, we did a u-turn and headed back to Port Denarau.
Once anchored we had a chat to Keenan after his longest flight and a numb bum - Coast to coast, 6 hours and 13 minutes - Not that he was counting.
Then we headed ashore to collect our long awaited addendum to the Power of Attorney document which the staff at the US Embassy had managed to complete incorrectly when notarising it the first time, all after we had hired a car, driven to Suva, got charged $200USD and had endured the experience of entering a parallel universe for a few hours. Fortunately the addendum was completed and notarised without incident and was waiting for us at the marina office. The Embassy had the audacity though, to courier the envelope reverse charge, even though we had incurred all the expense the first time and, needing an addendum, was due to their mistake in the first place. Things must be bad if the US government can't even afford a postage stamp costing the equivalent of $1USD!
On another note entirely, our congratulations go out to Roger Federer for becoming the first man in tennis history to reach the finals of a singles grand slam 11 times and the first man at Wimbledon to win 8 singles titles, as well as the first man since 1976 to win the title without dropping a set. A superstar indeed!
