Highlights:
...Ok so first the only real lowlight: Samoa (especially the island of Upolu) has packs of wild/feral dogs. Scary as hell! Had nightmares inspired by the sounds of them scrapping on the street the first night!
-Highlight #1: Pizza place we went to the first night had the best pizza I've had since NY. Yeah, who knew, Samoa?
-Highlight #2: Our fourth roomate the first night in the only hotel we stayed in: Charlie the giant cockroach!
-Highlight #3: Ferry ride from Upolu to Savai'i in the pouring rain. Cool to go on a non-touristy ferry, if that makes any sense...
-Highlight #4: First time I snorkelled at Lusia's Lagoon. Even with a rainwater lense and in the crappiest area near the shore with sediment, it was still good snorkelling, with a moray and juvenile angelifish (!) right off the dock!
-Highlight #5: Gecko cage fighting!
-Highlight #6: the overabundance of fresh coconuts and their juice at Lusia's Lagoon
-Highlight #7: Hanging out at an ideal waterfall, with cliffs to jump off and shelves to sit on, even in the pouring rain.
-Highlight #8: Attempting to walk home from the falls, and having the locals laugh at us, and having kids invite us to take pictures or swim with them.
-Highlight #9: Snorkelling out on the reef at Lusia's...Gah, incredible, with healthy coral (porites, the diseased coral I studied in Jamaica) and tons of different butterflyfish, damselfish everywhere and those fish that the scarred one was in Nemo (yes I am ashamed for not knowing its name...)
-Highlight #10: Prawns with Coconut cream and banana fritters.
-Highlight #11: Sitting under a fullish moon on the dock at Lusia's.
-Highlight #12: Late night chats with my falemate Rike. And finding a crab in our bed haha
-Highlight #13: Having your accommodation be a thatched hut over the water means that you don't even need to leave your bed to see the sunrise: just open a flap and see the sun come up over the reef :-)
Highlight #14: Passing out from motion sickness/dehydration at Tanu Beach fales and waking up to a gorgeous sunset over the reef
Highlight #15: Dinner and a show put on the family who own Tanu Beach, from the littlest kids to the older family members
Highlight #16: Dancing with the family and trying ava (which did not do anything narcotic-like except to make my tongue numb)
Highlight #17: Playing and jumping around in the water with my guy friends...just like the old days at West Neck, except we're in our twenties...
Highlight #18: Walking down the beach and finding shells
Highlight #19: Hanging out in the water with the kids of the owner, who tried to get us to say offensive things in Samoan and asked us about our lives ("22? Thats too old for school."). The little girl wanted to set me up with an older cousin, until I told her I was "friends" with all the boys in the water. She replied in disbelief "You have 4 friends?! And you're the only girl?!" I think you can see the disconnect here. It was adorable.
Highlight #20: Cocktails at a bar down the beach and watching crab wars down in the beach.
Highlight #21: Ferry ride back to Upolu in good weather.
Highlight #22: The only real tourist shops were in the airport.
Highlight #23: Having my fake cousin Leslie's underwater camera for the waterfall in the rain and all the snorkelling, etc.
Well, sorry that wasn't more detailed. A few more trip entries soon to come before I leave!
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