Welcome to our lives, yet another day in wonderful PNG!  I regret to report that one of us fell ill over the last 24 hours, running temps to 101.9 and a mild cough.  She's doing fine, a real trooper.  Jenny stayed back from today's hike to care for Ellie and put her outside to nap because it was too hot in the dorm.

Today's hike was anticipated to be an easy one because it was cool and raining all morning, but praise God the sun came out along with a spike in the humidity just before we left for our hike.  Here's a couple photos we took while passing a small village, remember, this is the reason why we are here...

Most things here grow pretty large, especially the bugs.  Amelie found this out when this crawled onto her.  She was pretty tolerant, showing off bravely until it started climbing toward her face, that's when she'd had about enough.  Man that girl can scream!!

Oh yea, there was a snail wedding too, but after an hour of watching their mating ritual, I got bored...  These snails were at least 4" long (apiece).

Today's lessons included security, first aid for the village living, and a bunch more Tok Pisin.  I'm still not speaking too much of it, but it's getting easier to understand when spoken to me if it is done slowly..

And yes, Jenny is just as beautiful as ever.  I swear the tropics make her look more beautiful each day!

Stay tuned for more posts!!  And for Pete's sake, somebody post a comment!!!!!