Hello All, I have not posted on our blog here for quite some time and you may be asking yourself what is with the title to this blog post. Well you will have to keep reading to find that out. Last time I posted I also said I would talk about what work we are doing, so I should probably get around to that as well.
But first off, Alyssa and I just got back from our first vacation in Fiji, with my parents who came to visit us. They arrived on Saturday the 19th of Feburary and left on Saturday the 26th. We tried to show them everything of Fiji we could while they were here, from the rich and fabulous resorts (they more so showed us that part, which I am very greatful for) to the village life we live in everyday. Here are a few of the pictures we took while they were here visiting us:
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| My Dad and Mom on their first day. My Mom brought a project for the kids to do during our Saturday Natuvu Kid's Club |
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| My mother and her new best friend Sailosi. Although she likes the kid, she hates the name : ) |
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| My parents with their new Fijian clothes just before we are about to go to church. My father likes to call them a dress, even though they are called a sulu and all the men wear them here but for everyone back home just tell him you saw him wearing a dress. |
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| All of us after church with the Turaga ni Yavusa (chief) far right, the Turaga ni Koro (mayor) far right, and Peni putting the moves on Alyssa (middle). |
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| Our third day we ventured off to Tavueni and the Lavena Lodge and Coastal Walk. This is at the beginning Alyssa and my mother are displaying their Fijian fly swatters. |
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| A picture of the orange dove. It is only found on the islands of Qamea and Tavueni and no where else in the world. |
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| At the end of the Lavena Coastal Walk you come to these two waterfalls. The only way to get there is to swim up river along two cliff walls to the right and left of you and then sit and enjoy the view. |
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| Alyssa snorkeling on the fifth day our first whole day at Qamea island. We were taken out by the resort to see cabbage coral. |
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| Here is another picture, the coral coming out of the ground looking like cabbage is the cabbage coral. The pictures don't really do it justice it was quite remarkable. |
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| The next day we all went out kayaking with a guide early in the morning. This was taken by our guide as we were about to go through mangrove filled coastline. |
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| My parents navigating through the mangroves. |
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| My father and I beginning a game of chess. |
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| On our last snorkeling trip my father and I got lucky and got to swim with a White Tip Reef Shark |
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| Some coral on one of the snorkeling trips |
Alright well it takes forever to load these pictures on to our blog here, so unfortunately I am not going to post on the work we are doing here. I do promise though I will make another post on that in the coming weeks. Anyway about the post title, which is very random. Alyssa and I yesterday took a 6 hour ferry ride from Tavueni back to Savusavu to go back to our village. On these ferry rides they have a main lounge area where they have two big screen t.v.'s they play movies on at extremely loud volumes. One of those movies was called "A Hunt to Kill" starring Steve Austin. At the very end of this movie Steve Austin mounts a 4-wheeler, revs the engine facing the main antgonist who is standing against a fuel tank of some type beaten half to death and states "When I hunt, I hunt to kill!" and then rides a pop-a-wheelie for about 50-60 ft before slamming the 4-wheeler into the bad guy. I could not stop laughing and I think it makes a great blog entry. Miss everyone and I will post again soon.
-Matt
