Bits and Bites....

* A friend and I have started having eachothers daughters over to play once a week giving eachother a little "free" time and the girls the opportunity to play together. Adinda has an older sister who is in school so she loves to play with Brynnie. This week they made necklaces and bracelets. So fun!

* Mikah LOVES papaya and there she is cutting up an enormous one that I bought the other day. It's growing on me. It really is a very healthy and very cheap fruit!

* Marc loves to play with playmobil!

* And there's Aidan doing homework and Christiaan reading the latest Garfield that he borrowed from the library today.

* It's been a regular week around here. Last week we had some "fun" when a person native to this country decided to come to our house and yell at us. I won't go into the gory details but suffice it to say we did nothing wrong and this was an incident of cultural "save face" and pass off the blame. Unfortunately this had to happen in front of the kids - one of them was involved and it was somewhat traumatic. But things have been dealt with and we've moved on. The biggest fun I've had this week so far is pumping up a ton of balls and bicycle tires and I'm really okay with that!

* Today Hugo flew along in our amphibious airplane as it is in the process of being returned to regular duties. I guess there was some avionics issue that the pilot wanted Hugo to check out in flight. The plane hasn't been operating for some time now so the pilot wanted to do a practice landing and take-off on water so they did so on lake Sentani. The tower operator from the airport wasn't quite sure she was hearing right when the pilot told her of his plans. As far as we know we operate the only amphibious float plane on the island!