Wom Beach

Our last day in Wewak was spent at the beach.

Beautiful Pasam Falls

On Saturday we hiked through the bush down to a place called Pasam Falls. It was so beautiful - waterfalls with these gorgeous water holes. Everyone swam, and we had a picnic. The big people hiked further down the valley to big falls down the bottom. My poor knees were protesting (i had to literally crawl on my bottom down the mountain), so i stayed with the kids. An amazing place. We were all so sore the next day, but it was SO worth it!

Wewak Fun

This was the approach into Wewak. We got there just in time to see the Wewak churches Good Friday march from the air. Dinner with the MAF ex-pat families in Wewak.

Easter in Wewak

For Easter this year we decided to go and visit friends in a town on the north coast of PNG called Wewak. We had a fantastic time with our friends, and got to enjoy some of the amazing little spots in that part of the world.
Thanks Lisi and Phillip, and Nick and Paula for looking after us! We love you guys!

Dentist Trip - MAF style

Rachel has had a nasty abscess on her gum for a few weeks. After a course of antibiotics, the abscess hadn’t healed up so a trip to the dentist is in order. There is a national dentist in Mt Hagen, however we were told that he does not have equipment to do x-rays, and more often than not he lacks basic equipment. We were advised to go to a Mission station at a place called Ukarumpa. Fortunately, three other MAF families from Mt Hagen also needed to go to the dentist, so we charted a plane and flew out.

We were up early, and at the airport by 6.30. We had a fantastic flight in the little Cessna 206, it was such a beautiful morning. We arrived at Ukarumpa in time for our appointments by 8.30am. Ukarumpa is a SIL mission station, with its own school for ex-pat mission children (both day students and boarders), hospital and dentist. Apparently it is the largest Christian Mission Station of its kind in the world. It is used as a base for mission families who are translating the bible in remote parts of PNG.

Poor Rachel had two teeth pulled out. They were both babies and both had bad infection in the roots. We had a lovely gentle American missionary dentist who took x-rays, and talked us through the whole thing. Rachel was very brave, and coped okay with the three injections, and two extraction's...although she is exhausted tonight and she will never again believe her mothers promise of ‘it wont even hurt!”

We were all finished at the dentist by 10am, but the three other MAF people who were with us all had appointments as well (including our pilot!) So we walked around the town for a few hours, and had fun doing some shopping in the mission supermarket (that had lots of fun American products that cant be found in any other part of PNG...marshmallows, chocolate chips, corn chips - you know, the essentials :)

We took off at 3.30, and almost had to turn back due to a fantastic storm, but Geoff (our pilot) was able to get ahead of it to get us home safe and sound by 4.30.
And that was our trip to the dentist.

Megans 8th Birthday

Last Saturday we celebrated Megans 8th birthday with a Island Princess party! Loads of fun. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGGY XXX