Bits and Bites....

I have a bunch of different thoughts in my head that don't necessarily connect to each other and since I'm not much of a segue girl, here they are in no particular order:

*Today there was a meeting called by Ice's dad and everyone attending was asked to bring some money so they can start getting funds together to pay the 200 million rupiah fine.... I'm not too hopeful that they will be successful in accumulating this amount of fundage before the 29th... I just hope they are or I might have to hide Ice somewhere to keep her safe.

*The other day I asked Ritha and Ice if they knew how conception occurs. They had no idea. Can you imagine??? Ritha has had a baby and had no idea... So I explained how the 2 cells merge and form a baby etc... Can you imagine living in such ignorance? I can't....

*A friend of ours spends some time interior; in fact lived interior for a number of years. He has a lot of stories to tell about people he has met and the history he has learned. One of the men in the village they used to live in told them that he knew what the tastiest part of a human was... He assured them that he had never personally tried it (ya right...) but the palm of the hand is supposedly the best.... There are some who feel that cannibalism is still happening in some areas here..... I try not to think about that...

*Hugo has installed the third traffic avoidance system leaving just one left to install. I'm not sure if we'll be getting one for our new Kodiak plane (which will arrive Lord willing next month) or not.

These photos represent just a sliver of life in the tropics. First you have our red lights that tell us if the city electricity is turned on or not. You'll notice that one of them is broken... They do occasionally explode.... When the lights are on the power is on and when the lights are off, the power is off or we've blown our main circuit breaker which happens fairly regularly...

The next photo is of one of our lovely pineapple bushes in front actually bearing fruit... and man it was tasty...

The last photo is of a "little" guy we found wandering around our kitchen... he doesn't bite... really....