Tropical 21

Ever since we ordered the tickets last summer I knew my 21 st birthday would be in Samoa. A tropical little island in the middle of the pacific ocean, isloated from the rest of the world. it sounds pretty sweet huh.. and I can tell you all.. it was! I was woken up twice during the night (2am and 5 am) by phonecalls coming from coutries who were way further along in the day, a nice surprise though they were received pretty much in full confusion from my side. At 8 am. Åslaug came to my bed (maddras) with the two troublemakers, singing happy birthday and holding a chocolate glazed cookie, (smuggeled in from New Zealand), with candles all around it. Just how a birthday should start. Then they had made the table outside our fale with flowers, tablecloth, nice china and cheesetoastie and pankakes for breakfast. It was perfekt. Even when it started raining and we had to run inside an empty fale and have a picnic instead. It was sunny by the time we finish eating.

 

The breakfast was lovely


But the picnic was pretty perfect too!

We had decided already that we wanted to rent a car and after a little sun badthing an cosmo reading (a birthday present from my beloved cousin) we rented a car and went exploring Savaii. A stop by the "dwarfs cave" was memorable. when we finally found it, a quite sizeble man and his son simply jumped into the back of the car and said "go go" withour further explanation. He knew a few english words such as "go go" and "waity waity" (they tend to put an -y ending to english words, such as ice creamy), but communication was poor. Its a lava cave from the volcano outburst between 1905-08. The man would go first, "waity, waity", and then light the enormous flashlight behind him for the two of us and the kid to follow. A little dirty, very exciting and facinating completely untouched by humans.

Our pretty blue car

Is that a dwarf coming out of the cave?

Our guide (s)

Our trip went on, stopping at a natural, quite cold, freshwater spring, and further to the very west of the island. Here we had a another tour to different phenonomens such as "star mountain", "blood well" and the "gigants cave" (ironically enough just a hole in the ground compared to dwarfs cave) We whatched the sunset sitting on lava rocks by the road, enjoying cold coke and chinese cakes that Åssi magically had found. Samoa is the last place on earth to whatch the sun go down each day. We drove to the fanciest resort on the island, Le Lagoto, right next to where we live, and had lobster salad for dinner (btw, lobster is gooood!) and cake and iscream for dessert. A coctail later and we were ready to go home. It was the perfect 21st birthday, from start to finish. And mostly thanks to Åslaug, whom I am eternally grateful. I'll remember this one forever.

 

The most westerly point

Cazed cousins? Cute cousins? Cool cousins?

                                                               Sunset silouett of Åslaug

                                                       Coca Cola commercial?

Lobster and cake - fancy enough for 21 years olds? I think so :D

Oh yeah! Im ready for a new year of awesomeness! :D

The Breakfast table was lovely!