I did, however, take a shortcut; it would have been longer, since we live on the southern part of the island and were visiting my mother-in-law and my beloved's family in the village of Siumu.
This is a photo of the Papapaitai Falls in Tiāvi, where I remember my father taking a photo of my family in 1972, when I first saw the falls.
It's so neat to take my youngest to see these falls, the same ones I saw as a child. The round trip took us a couple of hours as we visited another cousin who is also building in Samoa, and it's neat to see some diaspora Samoans returning to the motherland.
We also did some renovating on our family house, and it was good to complete that job, as there was quite a bit of wear and tear we needed to accommodate.
It's been so good to catch up with my older bro and his family. As his children are much older than me, they are grandparents of 13, whereas I'm patiently (not so patiently) waiting for mine, i.e., the next generation of diaspora Samoans...
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