Wednesday morning...

hello everyone..first of all I want to apologize to Rina for the big rumor that I started about her....sorry honey..couldn't restrain myself...I'll take you out to dinner to make it up to you, ok?
Mom and Eto are busy getting last minute preprations before their flight to apia at 2pm this afternoon...just got back from the store, bank, power company and other last minute run arounds so they're both upstairs and I can hear a lot of running back and forth...hahaha.
Had another great night last night and I feel really good today. Ok, here's one of my scariest experiences although I'll reserve the right to write more later.

The Fijian Peacock.

For a few years, the PCC got this great notion that they needed more "attractions" for tourists to experience. One of the dumbest of those ideas was to have birds of every variety roam freely all over the center. And the dumbest of those birds was the Peacock. There were about a dozen of those stupid birds and they all congregated in the Fijian Village and boy did they poop all over the place. Drove the Fijians crazy..and they roasted a few of them too. Well, the largest of these birds (unbeknowned) to me nested at night in a tree that was by the bridge from the Maori Village to the Fijian Village.
One night, late at night, I went to check up on the graveyard shift and see if I could confirm a rumor that some of the security guards were sleeping on the job. I let myself in thru a side gate and snuck into the Fijian village. As I was standing on the bridge, I noticed a cart heading towards me from the Maori village. I decided I was going to hide under the tree and scare the life out of the guy driving the cart. I crouched under the lowest branch of the tree and stood motionless. All of a sudden, I felt like someone or something was watching me. I thought of all the ghost stories about the PCC at night and that made it worse. I looked around but was unable to see anything because it was pitch black. The hair behind my neck stood on end and I was beginning to feel extremely scared. I was sure something bad was going to happen to me. Something told me to run but I stood frozen to the spot. Then just when I couldn't stand it any longer, this HUGE thing dropped on top of my head and started screaming and flapping! I started screaming, flapping and running around in circles. The guy who was on the cart saw and heard the commotion and he started screaming too. Then to make matters worse, he took off in the cart and left me there! Anyway, when I calmed down, I realized that this peacock which was asleep in the tree had jumped down and landed on my head.
They could never figure out what had happened to the flock of peacocks and I will never tell. It does taste something like a cross between a turkey and a duck....hahaha