Pago Pago, American Samoa - May 23rd Again

Since starting we have set our clocks forward 17 times and lost 17 hours. Enquiring minds wanted to know, where did those hours go? Now we do: American Samoa. We got them back with interest as a free bonus day! Yesterday was Monday, May 23rd and so is today. Groundhog Day, of course, is the ship movie playing tonight.

 We went to Tisa’s Barefoot Bar on Alega Beach, the Trip Advisor #1 rated attraction for Pago Pago.

 Among others from the ship party crowd, our friends Drew and Tan were there too.

 The local beer of choice is Vailima, which Tisa’s advertises as “the coldest beer on the island.” It met Joani’s exacting standards – she didn’t ask for a cup of ice.

 There is a nice little beach, reef and lagoon surrounding the bar

The beach is teeming with hermit crabs, about which we made brilliant observations, keen natural scientists that we are:

   

    

The lagoon was also teeming with little blue fish

After a taxi ride back to town, I stopped to get a haircut. In the barbershop I made a friends quickly, 

because people from Pittsburgh and American Samoa are both big fans of one particular guy:

So it was a very good day, and now, after a few sea days we will arrive in French Polynesia. Some enchanted evening …