Living here one often encounters interesting labels...
Last Saturday we went with our friends the VDijk's to the river up in the army complex where General MacArthur had a base during WW2. Sadly, for us, the VDijk's are moving to Nabire on Friday where they will take up their final posting. We will mis them a lot!
Not a ton of interesting news to report otherwise. The loaner engine for our amphibous caravan finally came in and is in the process of being installed. The folks on the south coast here will happy once this plane is back up and working again!
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell about something about Christmas here. Traditionally the folks that are more well off will give to those who aren't at Christmas time. Last year we had no idea of this tradition and when kids came to our door saying, "Selamat Hari Natal!" and then looking at us expectantly, we were not sure what they were waiting for. One of Hugo's colleagues filled him in and so this year we were prepared. I figured that the kids would start coming as soon as they saw we were back from the village and they did. They came for about a week and I handed out about 70 packages of cookies. It was hard to keep track of who had already received and who hadn't so I always asked. I think for the most part the kids were honest and only returned because they were bringing a friend or sibling. It was a fun way for us to interact with the local kids on a positive level as opposed to us telling them not to climb the fence, please don't use your slingshots around our yard, please don't throw rocks at our fence, and please don't slingshot little squishy fruit at our kitchen window....
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Two adorably cute little girlies!!!! Looks like the swim was fun.
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