PAGO PAGO

Pago Pago American Samoa – well it was interesting. You know the old saying “be careful what you wish for” – remember last week when I wished for warm weather. Whewwwww – did I get what I wished for and MORE.
We pulled into Pago Pago around 8 am and it was slightly raining – enough to make everything damp and super humid. By 9 am the sun was out and the sun down here is brutal (best description I can think of). We had nothing planned except going to the beach and doing a bit of shopping. We walked into town and hit the ATM for some American $$ and then looked around – that took about 5 minutes. There was nothing there – and it was miserably humid by this time.

We started to walk back to the ship and there were tents set up pier side with vendors that we looked thru. There is one thing that really impressed us here – the people are super, super friendly and so nice. They say hi when you are walking on the street, they wave from their cars and just go out of their way to be pleasant. Sam had several long conversations (you know how much he likes to talk) By this time it was around 12:30 and we decided to forego the beach and just hit the pool. So we changed into our suits and hit the pool – which I thought would be on the coolish side - NOT – it was like bath water. We stayed in the pool until around 2 pm and thought it would be best to get out of the sun. So we had a quick shower and sat on the balcony watching people come back – that is so darn interesting and I have no clue why.

Sailway was at 5 pm and the sun had not yet set. Sailway was interesting since Pago Pago is essentially a commercial dock and not for tourist. We watched them move containers around and the dock was really short so both ends of the Sapphire stuck out – it was comical in a way. We sailed on time and sailing out of the harbor was beautiful. This harbor is a deep water harbor created by a collapsed volcano and it was lovely to sail with the sun just starting to set. We decided to sit on the balcony for awhile and enjoy it with a drink (the last the bar set up provided by Princess).

Sam and Char