Saturday, April 20th
We slept in a little. It’s hard to sleep in when the roosters are going crazy all over the place. They don’t even wait until the sun comes up here. When I first woke up because there was one close by, I could still see stars in the sky!
We quickly cleaned the house, I did some wash and then sprayed poison for critters. Funny thing, we have had more bugs since they sprayed last week than we ever had before. Whatever they sprayed with seems to attract them! I did a real thorough spraying with our own poison in hopes that that will help.
We took a quick trip into the fair because I needed some American products, but we went in later than usual and most everything was gone. I was able to get some things in smaller sizes but that just costs more money. Now we know that it is important to go in early.
There was a cruise ship in port today so we saw tourists all over town. The ship comes in at night and then they give people several hours to walk around town or take tours to some of the beaches. There really isn’t much to see so a few hours will about cover it. Tonga doesn’t really want the country to be a tourist destination. They don’t like catering to tourists, like keeping shops open on Sunday, so they just have what they have and that’s the way it is.
Alan and I rode out to the east side of the island this afternoon to deliver supplies to some of the missionaries. One MQ was without water and we wanted to check and make sure that had been fixed. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful drive through the bush and along the far side ocean front. It was relaxing. We would like to do that more often if gas wasn’t so expensive.
After dinner we walked down to the Johnsons. It was Sister Johnson’s birthday today and they had everyone over for cake and ice cream. We had a nice visit with the other senior couples.
