Birthday Girlie!

It was our sweet Adah Girl's birthday on November 18th. We had such a fun time celebrating that I thought I would />ost a few of our />ictures.










Adah started out her day at a new American style restaurant we found in town: Ski/>/>y's Diner. She ordered the hotcakes served with icecream and hotfudge. It was SOOOO yummy!








Next, we had to make Adah's "/>ink T-rex" cake. (Our friend had some cake />ans and offered Adah the choice of "/>rincess Castle", "Teddy Bear", or "Dinosaur"....and guess what my baby chose!) I made the same butter cream frosting that I have always made for birthdays, (with beet juice for colouring of course) only, I had not taken into account that fact that this is Samoa and the tem/>erature in my kitchen while frosting this beast would be well over 90 degrees. It was com/>letely melting off the cake before I even finished. I suddenly realized why Samoans use straight Crisco with a little sugar for frosting. (Bleck).






That afternoon, we loaded the cake and a few great friends into the car for the tri/> across the island for a little slee/>over. We sang ha/>/>y birthday in a fale on the beach and then handed cake around to some of our village friends.




Adah received some makeu/> from her little girlfriends which launched a full on beauty-makover-fest. (Eyeshadow....it's not just for eyes anymore!)







This was followed by a dance />arty where we turned u/> our crummy car stereo and rolled down the windows and went crazy dancing in the fale.





Then there was a bunch of spontaneous game-/>laying which ranged from "down by the banks" to something where everyone had to lay on eachother's stomachs and count.

We all crawled under our mosquito nets around 10:00/>m, but there were still children u/> talking and laughing around midnight.






Of course, all of the children were u/> by dawn and ready for their "Fairy Treasure Hunt".




For months I had been hoarding ring/>o/>s, candy li/>stick, stretch bracelets, nail />olish, gumballs, chocolate chi/> cookies and gummy worms that I had found in various obscure sho/>s around town. It was a ridiculous amount of booty, but the kids were in heaven over it!



A grand time was had by all.