Keeping three kids entertained during school holidays with Mum at work and Dad away has been a bit of a mission. We've tried a variety of tricks from trips to the beach, swimming at the local hotel, crafts, not to mention the fun they have had in Carl's hut with the neighbourhood kids.
Today we had "Island Day" an idea the girls conjured up in bed the night before!!!
They made grass (plastic really) skirts with Cathy and my help, danced to Island Music, made a fabulous fruit salad with mangoes, pineapple, watermelon and banana, and set up all our bedrooms like a tropical resort with towels and flowers on our beds. There were also flowers scavenged from the neighbourhood and placed in vases all around the house.
They had heaps of fun!! Only 2 days of school holidays to go!!
Now unfortunately not everything in the tropics smells as nice as a ripe mango or frangapani's!!! At work we have competing bad smells making life painful. After months of rats eating holes in our office walls and scavenging from the rubbish bins poison got put out......now we have the delightful smell of dead rotting rats. Add that to the fact that we again have no water in the building for toilets and you can imagine that fragrant frangapani's are but a distant memory!!!
Of the delights and contrasts of the Solomon Islands
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