| Anna enjoyed reconnecting with her village friends |
Her village brother was happy to cook her sweet potato again |
She liked hanging out with her village grandparents |
She couldn't get enough rides in her new cardboard car |
Watch out! She is mobile now! |
Going on a walk with Daddy |
| She began learning how to carry a bilum |
Her friends are very inventive in creating their own toys |
Becca discovered the hard work
involved in harvesting coffee. First you pick each bean by hand. |
Then each person contributes what they have picked to the larger bilum |
A bilum full of coffee can weigh over 50lbs. |
This machine takes the outer hull off the beans |
| Then you have to wash off the sticky pulp |
The final step is to dry the beans |
Danny helped to dig a deep hole for our septic system |
This is part of the breathtaking trail to visit the series of dams the people built on the mountainside |
Along the trail this boy found a leaf almost bigger than he was |
Pictures can't fully capture how steep and slippery the trails were |
| The wall of this dam is under construction |
This completed dam is about the size of a backyard swimming pool |
Each dam requires a massive amount of labor to construct |
In this photo you can see two of the fourteen dams that formed this complex series |
Anna enjoyed the outing |
Back at Ukarumpa we gave Jonathan, Becca's brother, a huge yam. This is an important Wantoat custom. |
