On June 13th I went on a cruise with my Mum, Aunty and sister.
I'll just give the shortened version otherwise it'll be WAY too long. We boarded Pacific Sun, the ship, and explored what would be our house for the next 12 days.
This is our ship (the giant one with the big 'P&O' on the front).
The next two days we were on sea so we passed the time by playing games, eating, reading, sunbathing and socialising. Our first stop was at suva, Fiji. We had nothing planned for this stop apart from shopping so we set on our way checking out all the markets and tourist shops. The Fijian men (and occasionally women) we really intimidating, right up in your face trying to sell 
you things from their shops.
The next day we arrived on the other side of Fiji at port Denarau but instead of going to the island, we hopped on a small boat and got taken to a little mini island called South Sea Island. It was beautiful with clear blue waters and white sand beaches and so small, it only took us 5 minutes to walk around the whole thing. We had a BBQ lunch provided and spent the rest of our time snorkelling before heading back to the ship.
We had another day at sea then arrived at Vila, Vanuatu. We had previously planned and payed to go scuba-diving here. We had a van waiting for us as we came off the ship and they drove us to our destination. We got geared up with tank
s, masks, flippers and instructions and dove on our way. It was awesome and a really great experience. We saw heaps of fish but was unable to take our cameras so couldnt get any photos underwater.
Mystery Island was next on our agenda and was probably my favourite out of all the Islands. We spent most of the day snorkelling, after getting used to it at South Sea Island. The weather was better which made it easier for us and we were able to take some awesome photos.
Myste
ry Island is a small Island to the south of Vanuatu. It is about a kilometre long and less than half a kilometre wide. No one lives there but people from neighbouring islands travel over to sell their stuff in stalls for visitors such as us. We had heaps of fun, took lots of photos, Shelly got a massage and Caylah and I got our hair done.
That night, we set out to Norfolk Island where we would arrive in 2 days time which would leave us with another day at sea. We were looking forward to getting to our last Island. We were kind of ready to get home by then and sick of the ship, we thought it would be good to get some nice junkfood like McDonalds and check our Facebooks on Norfolk Island. Unfortunatly, when we arrived and had put our anchors down, the Captain informed us that the weather was making it too dangerous to be tendered (taken by a small boat) to the Island. The captain decided that instead of goig to the Island, we would just go around, I didnt see the point in this and would have much rather head home a day early but I had no say in it so we put up with the bad news and played games for the rest of the day. We had one more day on the ship before arriving in Auckland.
Wow, This was much longer than I intended.
Things I liked:
*The Staff - They had our rooms cleaned twice a day and served us food (which is always good :D)
*Visiting other countries - I loved seeing all these new places even though it wasnt as sunny as I would have liked.
*The pictures - I love taking photos and the ship and
Islands gave me some new backdrops and things to
take photos of.
Things I didn't like:
*The Staff - Most of them were not very cheerful and didnt particularly make us feel welcome (Yes, I know this is on both lists).
*The food - Although it was nice food, they didnt have variety and it didnt really change from day to day.
*The cabin - We had 2 bunk beds in our little room but there wasnt enough height in between each bed and the roof for us to sit. Apart from the one chair and the beds that we had tobend our necks to sit on, there was nowhere to sit.
