We arrived Suva around noon local time. We had quite a ride getting here after winds built to 25kts plus last night. Once again I was reminded why we reef before night fall after pronouncing that we would go for it, and not reef so we could keep our speed up and try to arrive in Suva before dark the next day. By 8 PM I had woken the crew and we were putting the first reef in and before midnight the second call went out and the second reef was put in place. With the 2nd reef we were able to keep the boatspeed under double digits, and the comfort level higher. By daybreak the winds had eased and it was time to shake a reef out -WRONG. Luckily I elected to do a few housekeeping jobs (dumping the holding tanks) and let people get some breakfast before tackling that job. Good thing! within 30 minutes the winds were back in the 20-25kt raange and there was no doubt that we would make it to Suva before nightfall. Cindy made us a great lunch of chicken curry and rice while we waited for Customs to arrive and clear us in. We will have 4-5 days at least here in Suva to do a little sight seeing, provisioning and some time to work through a short list of things that were not as they should be on the passage. While this was certainly not the passage that had been forecast, it could have been much worse - as our experience last year reminds us. The take-away is that forecasting the weather during these transition times of year is still difficult, dispite todays technology.