Samoa in Pictures

Right I finally have a bit of time to catch up on things!

Well I don't really, but I'm going to squeeze it in

 

As you know, my husband and I went on holiday to Samoa

 

It was amazing, the sand, beach, fish, diving, snorkling, swimming

 

No so much the food....

 

So here's my holdiday in pictures

 

We stayed in Beach Fales (Fales = House in Samoan)

 

 

 

The water was RIGHT THERE!

 

 

And soooo warm

 

With friendly sand fish

 

 

 

The first thing we did was go snorkling at a marine reserve

I got badly sunburned

 

 

JJ taught me how to free dive

 

 

 

We saw so many different types of fish, it was hard to get a picture of all of them because they run away when you motor after them shoving a camera in their face

 

Except for the black/brown fish in the first picture (to the left of the black/white one)

He attacked!

I think he was guarding his nest. JJ's watch was bitten a few times (being black) and on the elbow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw some amazing coral

 

 

The sights in the main city were interesting

 

These buses painted in every colour you can imagine were everywhere

 

 

We went to the Apia markets

 

 

This is just one of the many many many churches in the country

 

 

This one wasnt anything special to look at but it had a moat!

 

 

 While we were driving around, we saw a LOT of coconut trees

 

 

So it only makes sense that we would see piles of coconuts

 

 

And people sitting in the back of trucks

 

 

The police didn't seem to notice....

 

We went to as many non-water related attrations as we could too

 

I call this the bridge of doom

 

 

It was HIGH

I didn't want to do it. I got up six steps before I cried, threw a tantrum and put on my sad face which unfortunatly JJ managed to get pics of!

In the end, husband put himself on the step below me and I couldn't get back down past him so the only way down was up and across

 

We went to a museum, looked in the door and decided pictures of ourselves outside were more interesting

 

 

But most of the things to do involved the water. Including this Ocean Trench

Which is pretty much a hole in the ground with water from the ocean swirling in and out

 

 

We went to the south side of Upolu where the tsunami hit years ago

 

The coral is still damaged, and the reef fish are nervous

 

See them in the photo? No? Exactly

 

 

One of the highlights of the trip for me was the super warm 29 degrees celcius water meaning that I could go scuba diving without getting cold

 

Yeah!!!

 

 

We found Nemo

 



 

 

And ninja Turltes!

(sorry the photo didn't turn out very good)

 

 

Would I recommend Samoa?

 

YES!!!

 

 

There are tons more photos but I've already added 30+ photos and thats almost enough

 

If you ever get the chance - go to Samoa!

 

 



Pacific Holiday

Technically New Zealand is classed as a Pacific Island so saying I'm going "to the Islands" only counts when I say it to other New Zealanders

 

So intead, hows this:

 

*Ahem*

 

I'm going to Samoa!

 

It's my birthday next week and so when Husband and I sat down to plan it ealier this year, we decided thats when we'd head over to Fiji, Vanuatu, Rarotonga, Tonga, Samoa etc for a holiday

 

Fiji we were told was busy

Vanuatu was really spread out

Rarotonga was the place to go if you wanted to, well, not do much at all

Samoa was adventurous

 

We picked Samoa in the end because we had airpoints and all the specials for flights ran out on every island except Samoa

 

Its turned out that after reasearching it, we would have chosen it anyway

 

I was especially looking forward to my holiday yesterday when the sky was black and water got in my boots

 

I have a itinerary, rental car, hotels/fales and dive trips booked

 

I have the currency which I picked up from the bank today

(looooving the purple money!)

 

 

I've warned the house sitter that I've got chickens now - more about that when I get back

 

And I'll have my knitting for the plane rides

(yes Air NZ allows knitting needles on their flights, I've checked)

 

Husband has forbidden knitting on this trip

 

Well we'll just have to see about that won't we? Its my holiday too!!!

 

I'm around half way through the test knit for this hat having already made the matching mittens

 

I reeeaaalllly want to get the hat finished before I leave. I have been working on it at the local craft store in my lunchbreaks just to get it done

 

I've also had another one of my husbands cousin's ask me for a hat/beanie so I'm thinking of making this one for her.

 

Now I have four hats to make!

 

At least the girls ones are easy!