As some of you may remember my birthday last year was less than exiting as I was still sick with dengue. I sort of put a lot of pressure on this years birthday to be great to sort of make up for it. Well here is what I got.

We woke up in Apia Samoa. Sarah, Ben, Anne and I took a taxi to some waterfalls which are natural waterslides. This was entertaining in itself as we were the only ones there and we didn’t know where to slide down. I asked the woman who works there and she pointed to the big waterfall and said ‘you sit in the middle and you go down’ Seems easy
enough but there were two waterfalls so ‘the middle’ was open to interpretation. Good thing we had Ben, he tried them out first. That gave me the confidence to try and it was great. So waterslides to
begin the day, then we got to ride a monster truck bus (really a bus with huge wheels!) to a beautiful beach. We settled in, had dinner and then strolled to the bar where I had a margarita and we watched a fiefia performance with lots of dancing and fire spinning. We stayed at this beach for a while, snorkeled, made friends who we ended up traveling with and didn’t have to put on shoes for days. All in all a great birthday.

Peace
-Alice