Misc Notes on Life here

Since we told kids that we would buy pineapples and bananas if they came around selling them, we've had a couple groups come with those items. The kids in the photo came and sold me some pineapples. We also have ladies coming by selling tortillas and cinamon buns and french bread. I buy the tortillas and sometimes the cinamon rolls. The thing is that they don't use the good flour that we do and so there is often a bit of an odd taste to some of the breads.
At supper one day this week we were discussing which composer was the best. There was some discussion as to whether Beethoven was a dog or actually someone who made music and Aidan is convinced that Vivaldi is the best composer. Seeing as this is the first composer that he has ever been told about, I would say his opinion is just slightly biased....

Brynnie has finally stopped saying that she wants to "go home". I guess she realizes that this is our home now. Poor kid... But she sure likes sleeping on her new bunkbed.

We live in this beautiful new home with all our new stuff and some old stuff, but we don't have a phone and it looks like it will be a while before we do have a phone. The reason? There is no phone cable around for sale. We have to wait for some to arrive via boat I guess. Hmmm....

We did not celebrate thanksgiving this weekend as we are going to be having an International Thanksgiving dinner with all the MAF folks on Oct 28th. Hope you all had a nice thanksgiving weekend. This coming weekend is a holiday weekend here but for a very different reason. The past number of weeks have been Ramadan here. What a difference compared to Ramadan in Bandung! There have been a number of times that I have heard the nearest mosque going at 11:00 at night, but it is far enough away that you can just hear it and it isn't loud and annoying. This friday is Idul Fitri which is the day that celebrates the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. So this week the shops have been busier than usual as people like to shop for presents and stock up on cookies and other goodies for the Idul Fitri celebrations.