With the end near, were on our way to Apia Samoa. We had two whole days to fly from Taiwan to Samoa. I knew nothing about Samoa but my curiosity is what really intrigued me, not to mention this was our last stop on the traveling 5. With that in mind we set out, we had 2 flights Saturday night one of those flights went into Sunday. We had two more flights to catch before we arrived in Samoa early Monday morning. These 2 days of flying were kind of like a small trip in their own. We changed planes 3 times and got served meals on 2 of the flight. The last flight was the worst, we were all wide awake and just wanted to get to our hotel , we had been sleeping on planes and in air ports for 2 days now and it was enough.So we finally get to our hotel late Monday, and we weren’t the least bit tired. So we went exploring in the hotel only to find that nothings open besides the bar. So we decided to sit down and have a few drinks before we would go to our room. After hanging out with the Samoan bartender named Semo for a hour we all headed up to our rooms to pass out.
We woke up early afternoon and got on a bus a headed out to the Faleaseela River walk. On our way there we had a few near death encounters in the bus, seemed like our bus driver didn’t know how to drive, and he kept yelling at everyone, it was quite interesting. We ate lunch before we ventured out, we ate something called Palusami , it was fruity and weird but tasty all at the same time. We had to sit through a boring orientation before we went up the river, but at the end I got to decide which course we went on. It was nuts we went all over and saw some amazing stuff on our river trip. We got back to the hotel around 730 and didn’t have any near death experiences on the bus trip back. After a long day walking around we all decided to go to our hotels spa to check it out. We all couldn’t resist a hour long massage. Then we went to our rooms and fell asleep.
On Tuesday we woke up super early at 5am and went to this dock, I really had no idea what we were doing but Kristen told us it be fun. We get to the dock and theres a helicopter waiting for us, we all excitedly hopped in and went up into the air, we were up for a little bit and arrived at Falealupo ,Savaii and got right into a bus that drove its way into the rain Forrest. We arrived at the canopy and came across this bridge at the base of 2 trees. It was wobbly and high up but I loved it. We headed to Moso’s Footprint, all that was was a indentation in the ground, we weren’t to impressed with this so we moved on fairly quick. Our next stop was house of rock. The story behind it was more fascinating then the actual house it self but it was reall neat to put your self in their shoes to do what they did is incredible.
Wednesday was by far one of the best days we’ve had. We woke up early and took a van to a resort in Apia. We got to the La Vasa resort around 8 am and we rented a villa for the night. Out of all the wonderful things to do at the resort we all decided we would rent kayaks and go on a paddle, we got snorkeling gear and went out. We couldn’t of asked for a more beautiful trip. We got back in and ate a marvelous lunch, but we had such a big gap between lunch and dinner so we went back to our villa to chilla. When we got back to our villa we were shocked to find a bartended mixing Ugly Mermaids and other mixed drinks. to say the least a few of us were pretty intoxicated when it came to dinner, which lead me and mark to wanting to try the fire dancing. Boy that could have been ugly. We went and saw experienced a Fia Fia. Flames and dancers everywhere, it was INSANE. And after the entertainment there was a buffet laid out for all of us. I didn’t get to eat much of the food because I drank to much but I enjoyed the atmosphere. We finished our dinner and went back to the villa were we all drank a little bit more and passed out because we had to wake up early and head back to our hotel. But WOW WHAT A NIGHT.
After we fought off our hangovers we decided to go searching for a cricket match , but we ended up finding a Kilikiti match just outside of the hotel. We partook in a practice before the match and let me tell you, it looks like baseball but its not. Its way harder because the balls smaller and bouncing off the ground. So after we practiced we sat down and watched the match, but really we had no idea what the score was and who was winning, but we still enjoyed the festivities of the game. After the game we were walking back and with all the excitement going on I yelled ”drinks for everyone” . Hey there’s nothing that brings you closer to the natives than drinks. Id like the chance to play again, I think I could be a star in Kilikiti one day.
56 dollars spent on drinks on Monday (135.28 ST)
We spent 28,757.69 USD (69337.04 ST) on everything in total.
We had $40,433.20 USD before samoa
We have 11,675.51 for Friday.
10006.97USD. Spent on the yacht.
With 1 day left on our trip and over 10,000 to spend I took in into my own hands to treat us to something exquisite. With that much money you would think it be difficult to spend, but what we did was nice. I found a yacht rental where you can rent a yacht and pay per day to take it into a body of water. So I find a luxury yacht for rent for 23674.67 Samoa Tala and for an extra 500 Samoa Tala for a full bar and a butler. Of course we got the bar and butler. With this being our last day of our trip around the world, everyone brought their cameras and we plugged them into a television that was on our yacht. We all told stories of our favorite stops and favorite foods. We had the best day of our lives, nothing could compare to sitting on a huge yacht talking about our 
We had another 3 flights to catch to head home. And being that we had just stayed out all night we slept on the flights home, and when we got there we had to say our good byes. These 4 other people were like my family on this trip and it was the best trip anyone could have asked for. We split our 1,668.54 $ that we had left and we walked away with 333.70 $ in hand, and a million memories.
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