The next day Alex and I were walking down the narrow dirt path that made up the main road thru Falehau. Alex turned to me and said, “You know Dad, these people don’t have very much. In fact they hardly have anything at all. But you can’t call them poor!” I looked at him and said, “Oh why is that?” He replied, “ Because they are really happy.”

He had just learned the best lesson in life; happiness comes from within you not from how much you have.

To reciprocate the hospitality that we had received, ourselves and the other two boats in the harbor, decided to throw a party for the whole village. We got permission to use the community center and we all brought food that we had cooked and a boom box with old rock and roll songs. We then had a tremendous party and taught the local kids how to rock and roll.