Our last team heading to the airport to fly away home.

Banana time!

Planting coffee and avocado! Grow little plants grow!

Cutting stakes at Homes of Hope for the new coffee/avacodo/banana/ironwood plantation.

Following our new 3 ton truck along the crazy momi road.

Hard at work.

Cooking for a group of over 20 people was a full-time job.

No more bare cement at Momi!

The world's most picturesque playground.

My expert teachers helping out in Sigatoka.

Pauliasi-scheming while coloring

Back to work with a new team in a new truck!

Elani Pittman's fourth birthday party.

Bushwacking has its rewards.

Owen Thompson-Super Star

Break Time!

There has been rumors of a Men of SI calendar...July is all yours Oscar!

Jonathan and Tricia Thompson on our trip to Waya.

We have a friend who owns a bit of land on the island of Waya. It may be used in the future as an SI site and we were able to go and check it out. Incredibly beautiful. This is Tim and Ray trying to find it.

Sugar cane season means the cane trains are rolling through town.

We had about two weeks off before our last team and were able to tour around a bit. This is at the Garden of the Sleeping Giant-the largest collection of orchids in Fiji. It was amazing!

Pictures

The team treated us to a night at a beautiful resort. We had a great time relaxing and taking advantage of all the fun stuff to to-like sailing!

Tim and Matthew hanging out in our house.

After a week sharing a home together, the Students International president finally warmed up to his roommate.

Our newly remodeled home. We had to make many changes responding to the elements; super strong wind, rain storms...

Jima(one of our wonderful Fijian staff) and Lindsay digging our water pipe trench.

Tim and I have been at Ray and Laura's house in Nadi for the last couple days. Our last team of the summer left late Sunday night and now we're not quite sure what to do with ourselves! We were totally exhausted after this team and appreciated resting for a while. We're realizing that our ideas of "resting" are a little different from each other, though. I feel like sleeping and swimming in the pool or maybe watching a movie-you know, resting. Tim on the other hand can't stand being still with so many exciting possibilities available. His way of relaxing and regaining energy is surfing/hiking/kayaking/island hopping/doing everything-all in the same day! I'm beginning to get my energy back now, though, so hopefully we'll be on the same page soon. This week we are just helping out the Pittmans and finishing out SI work. I have taught a little homeschooling while Laura has been taking seminary classes and Tim has been helping Ray run vehicles to/from the shops and other errands.
Tim's brother Kevin is coming out on Monday to spend about 10 days with us bird watching and hiking here on Viti Levu and also on another island- Taveuni. We are really looking forward to seeing family and more of Fiji.
I am working on getting more pictures up here and on flickr. I tried a few weeks ago but the internet was down so hopefully it will work this time!