Market Day

Going into Honiara as a family always provides an adventure and lots of stares.  I've been wanting to go back to the plant nursery on the far West side of town, and we finally made the trip out there.   We found some beautiful plants, but more importantly we found our friend, Mary, who is from Louna in the East Russells.  Last time I went to the nursery, she had gone back home, so it was a treat to find her again.  One of her relatives is marrying Margaret's daughter in Marulaon next week, so it was fun to chat a little bit (alternating a little bit of that so-elusive Lavukaleve with Pijin).  Mary might be a good language helper for me - we'll see what happens.

The produce available right now at market amazes me!  Cantaloupe is usally so hard to find, but it is plentiful right now.  We are loving all of the fresh fruits and veggies.  Kingfish has become one of our favorite fish, so Aaron went to the fish end of the market while the rest of us bought the produce.  He came back saying, "I bought the smallest kingfish I could find!" 

And, of course, no family trip into town is complete until we've stopped at Frangipanni Ice for some delicious ice cream to cool us all off.  Sarah tried the purple yam flavor, Katherine tried chocolate (because it matched her shirt!), and the rest of us enjoyed pawpaw ginger.  Yum!