I’m back in Vuda. I just decided I couldn’t stay in Suva for another two days and came to the West early.

Today we just lounged under the coconut trees, while Joana explored the yard and did a bit of ‘vatatalo’ for the first time. Then in the evening we went down to the beach and Joana and I went for a swim.

It was a very fun day.

I brought my work PC over with me so I could so some work while here. Joana poured a cup of water over it. I have it drying out and I hope it is ok when I check it tomorrow morning.

We spent the whole week in Vuda. What a nice break from Work and Suva.

Vara and Joana have been here since Friday last week. I came in during the week. We managed to get down to the beach, and swim for a while. Vara and Robbie had taken the lead, behind them, Joana and I nearly got lost trying to find a new path to the beach. The whole time Joana was saying - it’s kokay. I’m not sure who she was trying to reassure, me or herself. I don’t blame her, she was on my shoulders and I was lost in tall grass. If there happened to be an onlooker all they would have seen is Joana floating above the grass. Would have made quite a perculiar sight.

It’s approaching mango season again and the mago trees in the compound here are heavy with mostly green mangoes. The night I got here, which was around 12PM ’cause I caught the last Viti Minibus from Suva, a mango nearly fell on my head. I had told the Minibus driver to just drop me off at the turn in, and there I was walking along with absolute nonchalance when suddenly there was a loud thud right next to me that made me jump right out of my skin. It took me half a second to realize it was a mango, but too late, the mango had already skinned me - pwned.

We made a swing for Joana in the tree at the back of the house. She loves it so much you kind of get tired of pushing her while shes on the swing talking away, naming the objects around her - bird, tree, tractor. Yeah, tractor, they plowed the whole field by the house that Simon is developing. Joana and I took some sandwiches that Tiare and Vara had made over to the tractor drivers and Joana was quite facinated with the burnt sugarcane, plowed earth, tractors and all. Yesterday she was asking for the tractors again.

Well, Steven probably wants to get on and play some WOW, so I’ll get off.