Monday, July 26, 2010

Family Conference Continued...

A freshly showered Marc and Mikah spitting some alka seltzer into a bowl as part of a race. The kids had to put a tablet in their mouths, get a good mouthful of water, do a number of jumping jacks, spin around a couple times and then run to the bowl and spit their mouthful into it. Whichever team filled their bowl first won. Mikah's team won of course... Doesn't that sound like fun??

A photo of our entire group of attendees. 101!


Hugo receiving his four year safety award. Me trying to throw a real American football...
This is the road you walk on from the conference grounds to the airstrip. On the way you see women like this one with their nokens (net bags) full of produce from their gardens, and maybe a baby as well, and then a toddler on the shoulders. These women are incredible!
This vehicle is fondly known as the "Red Rocket" for rather obvious reasons... The local kids gathered to see us off the morning that we left.
Here we are preparing to leave after a week of fun. The man in the second photo is sporting the local traditional clothing... or lack thereof... Actually, he was trying to make a buck by selling gourds to us. His friend is sporting a traditional hat made of chicken feathers.
Here we are in a Cessna 208 on our way to Wamena where we caught the same scary plane that brought us and made our way back to Sentani where we arrived safe and sound! Later than we were supposed to, but remember, this is Papua!

1 comment:

Tamara Jansen said...

Good to hear you made it back. Hope you have an easy transition :)