Up, up and away

We said farewell to Aunty Gery today. We've loved spending three weeks with her here in the Solomons, and look forward to catching up with her again when we get home. It gave us a taste of what it is like for Kevin and Machi, and all the staff here, who are forever having to say goodbye to the teams of people that come and go through the SWIM base.

We picked up the girls from school this afternoon and raced to the airport to hopefully wave to Aunty Gery as she got on the plane, but we needn't have rushed - the plane hadn't even landed yet! After about an hour, the plane arrived, then we went up onto the roof to watch Aunty Gery hop on the plane. It was fun to be so close to all the action - we could even see Aunty Gery waving to us from her seat in the plane!

We are very excited about our next trip to the airport, because we'll be picking up my Mum and Dad, who are coming for a two week visit. The girls have been counting down the weeks since we arrived! Only three weeks to go now!

After a long day, Kevin decided a trip to the local beach was in order, so the kids all piled in, (about 15 of them) and off we went. It was the roughest I'd seen it, but that didn't stop the kids from jumping out of the truck and running straight into the surf. It is such a different culture over here -I was the only parent of any of the kids, but the older siblings did a great job of looking after the little ones.