Party Time

On the 13th September we played our second to last netball games and finished off with a party at our house on the Saturday night. Incidentally the season has now ended (I hear you breathe a sigh of relief!) but that will not be the end of the netball stories as the Business House competition is about to start :-) (I hear you groan!)

Anyway back to the important stuff, the party. We invited everyone from the 3 Hyundai teams around to our place for a BBQ. It has become the tradition to go to someone's house on a Saturday night for a bit of a do so we (correction I) figured it was about time we paid back the hospitality.

Latika and Hedley had arrived the day before so we geared them up for a bit of fun! In the morning Adam, Hedley and Latika headed to the markets to get supplies for the evening while I dutifully headed to netball to play and umpire. Luckily they bumped into Mary who had managed to clean out all of the sausages available in the supermarket for the BBQ and so avoided a panic!! WHAT NO SAUSAGES LEFT!!! Anyway they managed to get some beef.

The party began just before 6.00pm when a ute came driving down our road piled with boys on the back!! Unfortunately for us they had all been to one of the church bazaars and had begun drinking Vailima during the afternoon. Hence they made a very hungry arrival and managed to polish off a few bowls off chips and dip!

Our next guests also turned up from the bazaar and brought with them a whole pig that had been cooked in the umu and won in an auction. I was a bit worried that we had far too much food but I majorly underestimated the apetite of the Samoan male - they polished off all the food and were asking for more when they left at 1.00am!

Anyway it was a great party. As you can see from the photos our resident guests from NZ joined in the fun. Latika now has many more "sisters" than she had before in the faafines and also won the Miss Hyundai competition as Miss Fiji!! Actually the Miss Hyundai competition was hilarious. Miss Australia (aka Holly) played a mean digeridoo on a Vailima beer bottle and had us all in stitches and Hedley (aka Miss NZ) managed to re-model our vacuum cleaner hose and bike helmet into a replica of the space man outfit we saw at the Miss Drag Queen 2008 show on Friday night!

I had warned the neighbours about any noise before the night began which was lucky as those Faafa's in our club sure have great singing voices and put them into practice. We had many renditions of Samoan songs as well as some attempted Maori ones including the Haka with made up words where appropriate. The singing is usually accompanied by traditional Samonan Siva (dancing).

Managed to pack up the chairs around 1.00am and then run a free taxi for the "hangers on" home to get rid of them and so we were in bed late but not too late. A great night was had by all and the Samoan Grape Vine meant that even others down at the netball court had heard about the party a week later!