New Year's Eve

Happy New Year to you! We are enjoying the festivities (very loud fireworks--Surprised their aren't more people here missing fingers from these big explosions) We had a BBQ tonight to celebrate and an outside movie. That is one blessing about living in the tropics, you can BBQ any time of the year.

We had fun making candies and cookies in preparation for Christmas. It is really loud here in Wamena at Christmas and New Years; much louder than Mulia was. There is a feeling of generousity when it comes to music. (Meaning, if I have speakers, you must want to share them, so I'll blast the music as loudly as possible. In that way, we can listen to several different types of music all at the same time. :)

I hope you have a blessed and safe New Year.

Isn't she lovely?

Isn't she a beaut? I love spiders. This one was in Singapore, but we have some lovely ones here, too. We just uploaded a bunch more photos from Singapore.




I'll add a few more and then, I gotta tell you about Hannah's new kitten... Just have to wait for Ben to get back with the camera. He's in a tribe, doing clinics and training for a few days.

Even though it is technically spring here, the weather is rainy and cooler, so it feels a lot like fall. This week, we have had so much pumpkin... Last night, I made pumpkin soup, then this morning we had a pumpkin sauce on our pancakes and I made a batch of pumpkin cookies... maybe I'm overdoing it.
No one is complaining , yet.