After the exhausting slave labor of our "Field Day" on Friday Thanh and I needed to relax. Thanh chose to take it easy at home while I chose the infinitely more responsible meeting friends for happy hour at Rubble's. There is nothing like air conditioning and margaritas to make you forget a stressful day or week at school, and some of our group had a rough week. After a pitcher of margaritas, some dinner and then another (free!) pitcher of margaritas from Jessie's coworkers we were all feeling much happier than earlier in the day. We decided to then hit up Koko Bean for some coffee and to listen to the band that was playing. As it is AmSam and small as heck, it figures that the band playing was my coworker's band that we heard play at JR's art expo a few weeks back. IT was nice to hear some bluegrass as it is a real departure from the typical music we hear on island.
Saturday we decided to do something fun and easy and decided that we would go investigate a waterfall in Nu'uuli. Jessie had been to the waterfall a few months ago so knew how to get there, and we were pretty excited because it sounded fun. We parked at a store on the main road, and from there it was only about a 25 minute walk down a road and then a trail. The waterfall was even better than I had hoped it would be – tall and beautiful with a large, deep pool to swim in. We admired the view from up on the area where the trail comes out, and then headed down to the water for some swimming. It was both relaxing and fun as you could jump off of some of the rocks into the pool right under the waterfall so that you get half-drowned with water on the way back up, which was pretty fun. A few boys were there when we got there and they were climbing the cliff face to jump off into the water which looked totally awesome – but as soon as we tried to climb up the cliff we realized that either those boys (twelve year olds, mind you) were redic buff or had gecko feet because it was impossible to get up there! We admitted defeat and just enjoyed swimming and jumping off some of the larger rocks.
After we all squished back in the car and headed to Jessie and Julia's to shower and change to get ready for the Birthday Party for our fellow WTer Matt. The party was going to be epic because they were renting one of the Aiga busses to chauffer us around from bar to bar for the night. However as it is Samoa, the guy flaked and we ended up staying at the Tafuna house for a good while before finally taking a fleet of cabs to the Bowling Club. We ended the night by camping out back at J&J's house until morning. Despite the bus troubles we still a good night.
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