This is a land of rainbows. The rainshowers slide through quite often so there are plenty of opportunities. Coming in to work off the mountain I can see rain showers off in the distance in all directions. There are very localized, pouring down sheets of water, in a small area. You can be dry in Agat and drowning in Santa Rita, next village over. It's so much fun to watch the showers move across the island.

Last night I went to the KPRG Thrift Store Ball with a couple of friends. Music was the "...melodious strains of Twisted Finger..." KPRG is the local NPR station. The theme was to wear the tackiest outfits you could dig up. I wore a pair of shorts held up with wide green suspenders and a thin black belt, a Hawaiian print shirt tucked in, high white socks, and sandals. I hung a camera around my neck and wore a straw hat. When I walked up to the ticket table a tall man with flourescent red hair and a pink ball gown welcomed me as the biggest Japanese tourist he'd ever seen.

The music was old rock and roll delivered by a three person band with a drum machine. They were pretty good. The dance floor would crowd up pretty regularly. The costumes were pretty imaginative. The radio personalities were good clowns and kept the party rolling along.

The ball was held at Jeff's Pirates Cove, a bar and retaurant right on the shore in Ipan, Talafofo. I even met Jeff and talked with him for a bit. The name of the place predated him. He bought it when it went up for sale and one of the prospective buyers talked about plans for changing it. Apparently Jeff got thrown out of the place a few times as a kid when he tried to get served in there. Now he is a middle aged man with a white beard running around running the place with his tank top t-shirt and bandana on his head. Nice guy.