How To Get a Cast in the Marshall Islands

1) Climb pandanus tree and make unexpected departure while landing on left arm.
2) Get a ride back to town on a power boat with 90 hp.
3) Get a ride in a truck while asking a zillion questions about all the guages. Start getting excited about a late bedtime.
4)Sit in exam room taking lots of pictures of your knees. Learn that this is called DISTRACTION. Take a pic of the nice man who drove you to the hospital.
5) Be a little unhappy about the xray room so take pictures of silly apron Mommy got to wear.
6) Take lots of pictures while waiting for the orthopaedic surgeon to come from home. Take more pictures and decide that hospitals are boring.
7) Decide you are feeling better and begin talking non-stop and requesting mental math calculations from the nurses who somehow disappear afterwards....
8) Look at xray with the surgeon and tell him how to put on the cast.
9) Lie very still while having fibreglass wrapped around an outstretched arm. Tell the nurse that the dr. had requested an acute angle and that you think it has moved 10 degrees off. Wait while the dr. stops working due to laughter.
10)Have very nice man who dropped you off, pick you up again and then have neighbour collect you at the dinghy dock.
11) Get bonus snack so you can take medicine while reveling in a very late bedtime. After telling Dad about every detail of course.
12) Retell all details to little sister who holds your hand and wiggles her own fingers while you need to do your own.
13) Invite friends over to decorate.

Lost Then Found

We had a whole bunch of pics go missing.
They are now found.
Kiribati was one of our favourite and most special stops. We shared it with Patrick and Rebecca on Brick House as well as John and Paul on Mr John.
Now we'd like to share a bit with you too!

Kiribati Villages(November)

The pics are from Butaritari and Kuma. All mixed up. The best we could do with time and photo retrieval constraints!

Kiribati Courtesy of Brick House

We weren't sure we'd retrieve our pics so Patrick and Rebecca kindly gave us some of theirs. Sorry ther're a mishmash but that's all the time I have.
The bottle in the tree is collecting sap to make toddy.

Toddy comes in 3 forms: fermented alcohol, boiled a little to make tea (very nice), boiled more to make syrup. This was kind of like maple syrup with molasses.