Lunch Time Escape

Lunch time is the saving point in the day! Without it.....ugh.. I don’t know if I would make it! ;) We are really lucky because Samoana is in a large village with a few restaurants. Each day we actually get an hour for lunch, and we make the most important decision of the day....where to go!? Yacht Club or Shady Plate Place? 

Each day when the lunch bell rings (the bell is a man hitting an old oxygen tank), Matt, Max, and I usher our kids out the door, and meet right in the middle of campus between our 3 classrooms. We then make a made dash through the kids and head one of two directions: straight or left.....

Option 1: The Yacht Club is amazing. We can sit outside and look out at the harbor and the green mountains, feel the breeze, play with their cute little puppy, and enjoy good food. I always choose between the grilled cheese or club sandwich while the boys go with either the Steak Bomb or Chicken Burrito. It’s a little prices (compared to Shady Plate Place) but it’s worth every second. 

Option 2: Shady Plate Place is just that..shady.. but it’s not bad. We don’t know if the establishment has a real name so we just dubbed it a rather fitting name. It’s a little hole in the wall with all its windows covered up with cardboard boxes. Inside there is a counter where they dish out your food. You can choose between spicy pork, chicken noodles, chicken curry, fried chicken, or lamb stew. All come with the option of rice. In my opinion the ONLY safe dish is the chicken noodle but the boys get the spicy pork and fried chicken too. Basically they heap piles of food onto your plate and then give it to you for dirt cheap. A full meal of chicken noodles with rice and a drink....$3.25 and that’s enough to feed 2 people! You then take your seat at one of the 2 long indoor picnic tables and chow down. The whole experience only takes 10 minutes (as opposed to the Yacht Club experience which takes about 50 minutes). And don’t even think about asking what your dish is made of or where it’s prepared..... I prefer the don’t ask, don’t tell system.