Saturday, May 4th
Today is Kimi’s and Mike’s first anniversary. Wow, that year went fast and so very much has happened. We are so grateful to have Mike in the family and can’t wait until our new grand daughter makes her grand entrance!
Our toilet is still not working!! This is ridiculous. We are running back and forth to the house next door and everyone knows why. How embarrassing! They came to work on it today and they thought it was fixed, but it wasn’t. By the time we got a hold of them again it was too late to do much. All of the stores in town were closed. I can’t believe that we have to go through the whole weekend like this.
We went into the fair this morning to pick up a few things. It was a mad house in town. I have never seen so many people!! We did not know about “White Sunday”. It is the Sunday in May that precedes Mother’s Day. The other churches call it their children’s day. It is kind of like our Primary Program day, only all of the children are dressed in white. They do the church service that day and then there are huge feasts prepared in the villages and they honor the children. They don’t really get presents, just candy and toys. I guess that, plus the fact that next Sunday is Mother’s Day was the reason for the huge crowds in town. In Tonga they celebrate Father’s Day the Sunday after Mother’s Day, so we won’t be going into the fair for a couple more weeks. I don’t want to go through that again. I hate crowds!
We had a beach trip planned for this afternoon but we missed it because we had to wait for the plumber to come. He was only 2 hours late!! It is turning into a really crappy situation!
Some good did come of it though, we were able to talk to Greg on the phone while were waiting for the plumber. He sounds good and he’s happy now that the weather is warming up and he can get out on the golf course again.
We are happy too, we had another great walk tonight.
