An Island Adventure: Guns and spots and more Suva

After months and months of drooling (to put it nicely) over this gun, Carl finally recieved his dream timber spear gun in suva, needless to say I was kicked out of bed and ignored ever since...

Happy 37^th birthday to my dear husband! As usual in Fiji, it aint gonna be a particularly eventful birthday, today is the day that all our cargo will be loaded onto the boat, which hopefully will be leaving on Friday morning. (I say hopefully for obvious reasons, as the only time we know the boat is actually leaving is when we see it leave the wharf...)

So we have finished all the shopping we have needed to do to send over, and we are ready with a few months supply of basic foods, toiletries, loads of seeds to plant a veggie garden, all the man-stuff Carl needs for house building, and with Carl’s phenomenal organizational skills, everything is packed, labelled, numbered and ready to be shipped off on the bomb, I mean Boat, for the 3-4 day journey to Rotuma. Hopefully the seas will be nice and smooth and calm, so Carl and his uncle Ringa will have an easy journey.

Meanwhile, the kids and I were supposed to head over to Nadi today and fly over to Rotuma on Friday, however, I had to postpone our flights because they both have Chicken pox! (AKA Chicken Pops!)

Spotty boys

When we arrived in Suva at our relo’s house, one of the kids here had just had it, and then their teenage daughter got it, and I knew it was inevitable that Noah and Saulei will get it. No way of avoiding it, so I kind of prepared myself. And sure enough, almost 2 weeks to the day, both kids on the same day got fevers and spots...

They have it all over them, and besides the discomfort and itch mainly at night, as well as looking like aliens, they're totally fine; their crazy hilarious naughty selves, just very frustrated by not being able to leave the house for so long. Oh well, lots more TV for them is a great alternative.

In Rotuman culture, they believe that you have to keep them indoors and dry, out of the sun and not shower or bath them, so that’s what I’ve been doing, as well as wiping them down with oat water. A bath would be nice, but I wont even be SEEING one of them in the next 8-9 months. Oh well.

I didn’t want to take them to Rotuma when they're still infectious, for obvious reasons, but equally as important, I didn’t want to take them there with sores and scabs, as I know too well how infected sores get there and how monstrous they become. Kids with oozing tropical sores all over them is not my idea of fun. So there you go- hopefully all the sores and scabs will clear by next Friday and we will be off. By then Carl would have arrived, and settled a bit, and fluffed up the house for my arrival (Not.)

And then a week later, Lizzy, Davey and Delphi arrive for 2 weeks, and I CANT WAIT!!!! We feel so blessed and humbled by the fact that our dear friends are coming all the way to Rotuma to experience our life and what we are doing there. How lucky are we??????!?!?!

So till then, another week and a bit of doing nothing, going down to town for coffees and hanging with the fam.

All good here, hope you are too, love from all of us xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Saulei rolling the Roti's... (couldnt figure out how to flip the picture the right way, so just flip you head the right way...)