Yesterday a woman was beaten to death by her husband and then found by the side of the road by a motorbike taxi guy. The husband escaped and has so far not yet been caught. Who knows if the police here even really want to try and find him especially if he’s gone into the jungle.

There’s a real shortage of flour on the island right now. I still have a few bags in my cupboard but that’ll be gone this afternoon once I make bread… hope the boat comes in soon! We might have to go local and eat rice at every meal instead…

The work on the concrete around our house is going at the typical Indonesian pace; galatial… They are supposed to work some more on Friday and Saturday this week.

Tomorrow is Christiaan’s 8th birthday. He will be having a combined class b-day party with Aidan deHaan on Friday. Nicole - we invited the whole class, 13 kids or so, and are hosting the party at the school playground and outdoor covered cafeteria...

Tomorrow is also International Day at the school. Aidan’s class is doing Canada. Yeah!!! So I’m helping with a little hockey booth where kids can take shots and try to score through one of three holes. Should be fun!

We are heavy into toilet training these days. And I must say that things are going amazingly well. As long as I don’t tell Brynnie when to sit on the toilet or potty it’s all good; the little stinker… wants to go when she feels she has to go… But we’ve got number one and number two all happening in the potty or on the toilet with only a rare accident!!!!!!!!!! I’m a very proud mother….

Lately the kids have been talking about missing slushies from the gas station and Tim Hortons timbits. But if anyone of you has any ideas about sending those items to us, no thanks… :0)

Hugo and the avionics team are making good headway on the plane from Aceh. This week Tim Dyke the avionics manager from MAF in Nampa is coming to help out.

Earlier this week we had no phone, no internet and no email… yikes, talk about feeling isolated from the rest of the world…

I mentioned before that there have been soccer games across the road from us every day. Well, the other day the women/girls were playing and someone decided that for those games they needed to have a play-by-play being screamed through a fog horn… So that’s how we ate supper that night, to the sound of distorted play-by-play (they always turn anything with a speaker to max volume so the sound is always distorted.) Someone also decided that it would be nice to have a sound system for music going. So every now and then they’ll play some music. So we have been treated to Abba, Celine Dion, some popular Indonesian singers etc… but rarely do we get to hear the whole song. They seem to play random snippets at random moments… and very, very loud….

Yup, so that’s what’s happenin’ down our way these days….