Our Travels

Here we are in Austria once more. This time we have with us hubby's parents. We landed in Munich rented a car and made our way to Austria to visit family. We're having grand ol' time site seeing. Yesterday we went to Flachau to try put my son on skis. He was not keen at first but then liked it after a bit. I need to sign him up for lessons so he can learn early. I on the other hand got on skis after about 10 years and managed to stay upright. It was awesome but kept on the beginners slope. I itched to go higher but thought better of it! It was a good thrill and would love to go skiing again some time. After having lunch there we went to Salzburg and had a good look around before we headed home. The day before we went to the Bad Ischl thermal pools and it was beautiful swimming while looking at the snow capped mountains. Just gorgeous. Today was window shopping day while the boys went to the Red Bull hangar tomorrow relaxing day.

So the stampede day finally rolled up and we were all very excited about it. Our driver cum gardener and our babysitter arrived at 6pm and off we went to pick up our friends whom were catching a ride of us to avoid any drunk driving. Gotta love 8 seaters than can seat 9 people! Well we've been here 7 years and have never been to the stampede before. There were hundreds of people there and what a well-organised event. It was good fun. There was loads of food and the drinks were cheap. There was a shooter station and the shots were mini drinks so I stayed well away from that station. My one complaint was that the breezers ran out fast. Everyone got a drink at the door but when I went to the bar to get another they didn't sell it at the bar. I don't like mixing drinks so that sucked.  Our whole group had an awesome time line dancing and just having a good laugh but one blacked out and abused the spouse on the way home and one went walkabout and two dirty danced like teenager...

My son's school is celebrating their 25th year anniversary tomorrow Carnival style. There will be food stalls from about 80 countries represented in the school! Pretty diverse if you ask me. So this lone Samoan decided to do pagipopo for our stall. We're sharing a stall with Australia, NZ, Fiji so it should be good. My Fijian friends are doing the kokoda (oka) and smoked octopus!  So for the past two days I've stayed home and kneaded dough like there was no tomorrow. Auoia.  I owe this confidence to  Mrs. Pagipopo  but I shouldn't speak too soon until they're all sold at the fair tomorrow! All proceeds go to a charity the school chooses. It's going to be an hectic day tomorrow so this momma better head to bed to have energy for tomorrow:) Last week other friends and us two organised a farewell party for a good friend who is retiring from flying and from Oman Air. We had a Black & Gold theme amongst us in the know but pretty much an open invitation to...

We don't do Valentine's, or should I say the hubby doesn't do Valentine's, so I don't really expect anything on this day and as hard as I try, there's a niggling feeling of disappointment when the day comes and goes and no flowers arrive! Yeah ok I'm a bit spoiled like that...or very womanly like that! As I was recovering from the bug I've been suffering from my sleep patterns have been all over the place. So the night before I suffered from broken sleep and was sleeping like a log at 4 am onwards. I was awoken from deep slumber when hubby pulled open the bedroom curtains with a sing song 'Happy Valentine's" echoing in the room and there in front of me was a tray filled with breakfast, eggs on toast, bacon and pancakes with a cup of tea. My irritation from being woken up quickly turned to pure happiness that he did that. I was soooo happy, teenage happy, what an awesome start to the day and that from all our years together hubby did this to...

Woke up from my slumber in time to see Samoa kick butt at the Vegas 7s. Yippee. They edged out Fiji 12 Samoa 14 in the semi final. Samoa is up against NZ for the final. I'm still up so I guess I'll wait to find out what happens. All the best to the boys in blue. And fast forward to today, I woke up to Samoa beating NZ in the final NZ 19 Samoa 26. Uale Mai and Alafoti Fa'aosiliva have still got it. Beautiful tries by Fa'aosiliva alright. Just amazing and nice to see their drive once more. Here's to hoping that spark remains for Hong Kong to get the extra points. Choo hooo.

So I'm still unwell. I don't know what the f*** is going on but the meds I got from the doctor last week didn't do the job and I had done everything the doctor ordered. So I'm back to paracetamol until my next appointment with the doctor tomorrow morning to figure this bug out. But I'm learning online and from my personal almost doctor special person what might be wrong so I'm getting lots of rest, lots of fluids and back to basics use vicks on my chest. lol Got to love good ol' vicks. That is a Samoan mom's answer to everything or at least my mom and grandma, if not Samoan oil, it's vicks, then on to lau gogu(gogu leaves), and lauti(tea leaves) and so on and so forth. Which brings me back to our upbringing. Growing up in Savai'i my family were a family of healers, our grandma, great aunties, and some uncles were traditional healers of sorts. So when my sisters and I were old enough...9+ we each were specialized in something. We were all healer...

OK I'm so over being sick now. I've been sick on and off for a month now. Last week I went to the doctor and he prescribed more antibiotics when I was just on another course from Samoa. And because I'm a doctor in my head I decided it was all a scam and didn't get the antibiotics but only the cough medicine and paracetamol! Like I didn't have enough of that at home. I was ok by the week-end when it was time to pick up our guests and take 'em out to dinner clubbing  that night. The next day was the usual recovery day and by evening all was well with the world. It's really cold here at the moment and I think this is where the problem lies. I tend to catch a cold fast when I get chilled...*gasps dramatically* reminds me of those characters in Jane Eyre books who 'catch their death' outside. Well I think the sooner I realise I'm a real life 'sensitive lady' the lesser I get sick. So since yesterday I'm dressing like I live in Italy. Je...