hitchhiking

So we've pretty much been hitchhiking every time we need to get somewhere. Just about anyone will pull over if you flag them down and they will gladly take you wherever you want to go. Usually it's a van or a truck that barely runs but has plenty of room but we have also squeezed into some SMALL cars. Anyway...

Today Bobby and I were walking home from Neiafu and sweating our asses off. Nobody was stopping so we were starting to think we were going to have to walk the whole way home. About the time we had given up a van pulls up and asks us if we need a ride to Mataika (they somehow knew who I was and where I live...they even knew that I had been sick this past weekend and expressed their concern about that). So we get in and were thinking "this is awesome, we don't have to walk all the way home now." We drive a little ways down the road and pull over at a falekaloa (small grocery store type thing). The guy goes inside and buys us ice cream because we looked hot. It was awesome.