More Mail!!

Wow…another amazing day for mail! I FINALLY got my school supplies (mailed August 1st) and I got two more awesome packages from friends as home…it was phenomenal.

Melissa decided to come down today, instead of yesterday, and we had fun hanging out with Lin (the gardener from Laura farm) and playing in the lagoon today. Thank you to Whitney and Kel’s expert care packaging skills, we had an awesome raft to play on (which also now doubles as Melissa’s bed when she is here) and just had a fun, relaxing afternoon.

After lunch and playing we decided to take a jdik jambo to Arno to say hi to Francis and Agnus…who are now our Marshallese grandparents! (Don’t worry Bumpa, you’re still my number 1 grandfather!) By the time we got there one of the biggest rain storms since I have been here hit and we ended up staying and having dinner to wait it out. Melissa and I were the chefs and it was a delicious meal of spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread…what a treat. We didn’t bring any sleep over stuff though and had to go back..my family was expecting us as well. So at about 8 we decided to head back. This ride back was the definition of a true Marshallese adventure! There clearly isn’t much light on an island with limited solar power and we only had one headlamp. It was DARK. The puddles were ENORMOUS from the rainstorm and the side of the road was lined with nearly invisible HUGE hole used for cooking pigs. I was a bit scared at first, but after a while it just became hilarious. We splashed through mud puddles that were over a foot deep and occasionally fell into ones that were up to our knees…we had to get off and wade through the rest of it. I almost lost a shoe in one that was over my knee…but luckily found it in the mud. The ride that normally takes 25 minutes took us 45 minutes, but it was a hilarious ride and tons of fun!