Stuff...

I'm all alone this evening. Hugo flew out to Wamena earlier today at 1:00 on what was supposed to be the 7:00am flight but due to bad weather in Wamena it was just a titch delayed. He is doing some kind of a history on the avionics (or something...) of two of the helicopters used by Helimission. If you think gas is expensive where you live, the folks in Wamena are currently paying $3.30CAD per litre! For some reason, no one wants to fly gas here anymore and anything in Wamena came in on a plane. (It is the world's largest city with no roads going to or from-there are about 10,000 folks living in Wamena right now.)

Today I went to the local supermarket. I don't usually buy meat there because their standards of hygiene leave something to be desired and you're never sure just how long the thawed stuff has been sitting there and you know that it was all previously frozen. But today they had a whole bunch of whole frozen chickens. I looked at them and picked one out to be weighed and asked where they were from. The guy standing beside me proclaimed that they were from Surabaya. "Export quality," he went on. Well, for the cost of a litre of gas in Wamena, I thought I'd give the chicken a try. When I came home I looked closer at the label:

Bebas Flu Burung - Free of bird flu, well that's a relief!!!

It has been really dry here for quite a while until last week. However, most of the rain has come at night while we are sleeping. So when it rained this morning, Marc and Brynne were eager to get out there with rain coats, boots and Brynnie's "new" umbrella.