Samoa, South Pacific Islands

Ok Kids...

Has everybody found Samoa in Google Earth? Good... so you know that it is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, right? An Ocean that is bigger than all other Oceans put together, right? So you understand that when in Samoa things sometimes run a little different, right?

Kids: Well no what do you mean?

Us: Example the first...

9:00 pm last night: Andrea and Dion were talking to the boss of the Valentine hotel..." you can get us a taxi to the airport for 4:00 am correct?"

Boss: "Yes no problem, we will even wake you up at 3:45 AM with a knock on the door"

Us: Perfect...

fast forward to 4:30 AM... we wake up, with no knock on the door...PANIC!!!!!! We jump out of bed and secured a taxi and were off to the airport for our flight at 6:20 AM. The airport being a good 30-40 mins out of town we still had lots of time but it was a bit of a heart stopper to realize that we just about screwed ourselves.

5:oo AM: Arrive at airport to find that nothing is open and that Air New Zealand forgot to send the only flight off the island for the week! Yea that is correct, no airplane, no Air NZ reps and a terminal full of confused Palangi (Samoa word for Tourist). We got word that the plane had mechanical problems in L.A. and was never sent out leaving us stranded at the airport! So here we are now, with a full day to kill in the capital (Apia, Samoa) until the new plane leave tonight at 11:15 PM. We fly to Tonga and cross the international date line which means that we will completely lose the day of October 23rd, 2008....whooomp it's gone!

So that is the current update as of today...

the way this blog works, read above for the things we have done and seen in the last week or so...

Hope all is well!

"Two kids who did"