A beautiful Diwali sunset at Moo Moo Restaurant at the Westin. The Diwali Holiday, the Hindu "Festival of Lights" is a national holiday in Fiji and is celebrated by the Indo-Fijians. We were invited to Angelina's house in Lautoka to partake in some of the festivities...which include a lot of eating! Angelina lives with her mother and father in a house that they built (I mean physically built- her mother was the "foreman" on the project). She had prepared all types of Indian sweets, as well as soup and some Indian dishes. Angelina had made certain that none of the foods contained nuts or mangoes for Isabella and Everett- the kids were treated like royalty. Their house did not have aircon (air conditioning) so I had warned Tom that I would have to give the signal when I was about to pass out- we were all wearing our festive Diwali attire.
After A L L of the eating... everyone has there house decorated with lights (as we do during Christmas holiday) and sets off fireworks. Not the kind of fireworks that we are able to buy for the Forth of July, but Disneyland Fireworks! So of course, Tom went crazy. We had bags and bags of all kinds of dangerous firing and exploding paraphernalia. They were big and loud and out of control. Everett and Tom were in heaven! We set up our firework show on the beach. Fortunately, there were no fires (like there was the one year that Tom had his firework demonstration at Nonnie and Poppi's on the golf course...) but Tom did manage to allow one firework to tip over and shoot up the beach right in front of the kids and myself toward another couple. After that explosion, Isabella and I were ready to go- Everett, on the other hand, was ready to start lighting twigs and branches on fire. Great...
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