Weekend trip to Ba

A couple coworker friends and I took a small weekend trip to the west side of the island this last weekend. The main reason for going is to drop one of the guys off at the airport yesterday morning for his flight to New Zealand for a work trip. They just invited me along for the ride. I did my usual shopping on Saturday morning. We left around noon and drove to Ba (pronounced "Mbah"). We spent the night at my flatmate's parents' house. He had already went up on Friday to visit his parents. It takes 3 hours by car to get to Nadi, where the airport is, and another hour drive north to Ba. We picked up a case of stubbies in Nadi. North of Nadi, people were selling stuff on the side of the road and we stopped and bought a bundle of fish as a gift for the family. They had the cable channel, so we watched two games of the Super 14. My Crusaders won. The two guys who came with me were rooting for the other team. We drank the beer while watching the game and nibbled on some excellent goat curry made by my flatmate's mum (as they say here). After the game, we had a late dinner. His mom made dhal, the aforementioned goat curry, fish curry and crab curry, with the usual roti and rice. I've already mentioned how I love Indian food made by Indian mothers, so it was definitely good. We crashed in their spare bedroom and woke up early to get to the airport for his 9 am flight. We had pumpkin curry and fish curry for breakfast. I just had the pumpkin as it's one of my favorites and I don't like fish breath in the morning. We drove to the airport in Nadi and dropped the guy off. There were two other coworkers who just came in from Samoa from talking to a new client there. There was a mini-meeting at the airport with 7 of us there. Our manager arrived on his own as he was flying to NZ also. We visited a relative of my flatmate who lives by the airport. They gave us some lamb palau and breadfruit. We drove back to Ba and picked up another coworker who was visiting his parents also. We drove back to the house and just hung out. We had palau for lunch. We had the lamb palau we got as the gift and the goat palau that his mom made. My flatmate's parents always give us a ton of food. I brought back a big box. There were homegrown bananas, cucumbers, carrots, lemons and dhal peas. My friend bought some homemade ghee that was made by a neighbor. We already have some at the house along with hand-pounded Indian spices. We have also received eggs from their own chickens, but not on this occasion. The two of us drove back yesterday and we got back around 5 PM. I did my laundry that I usual do on Sunday mornings. I had some leftover palau that his mom gave me as take-away from lunch. I went to bed early to catch up on my sleep. My flatmate and the other guy came in this morning from Ba.