This and That in Malolo, Fiji

Since our last post, we have celebrated a birthday, lost a few teeth, swam with a sea snake and joined a rally.

Holy Sea Snakes!!! Yep, you read right. Seanna and Daddy were swimming of the back of the boat when a black and white striped sea snake came right up to them and tried to get up on the boat. NICE!!!! We calmly got Seanna up and out of the water and watched as this thing circled the boat trying to find a way up. What is it with us and snakes!!!!!! We had a boa in Panama join the crew when we had Annie and Danny on board in the San Blas. Danny LOVES snakes, LOL.

Our little girl is 5! Crazy to think that she has had 5 birthdays while sailing. Has it been that long? We spent the day doing what Seanna wanted to do. We played at the resort pool, enjoyed quality family time and I baked a 4 layer german butter cream cake with pink frosting. It looked so pretty until the heat of the tropics melted the frosting and my designs. It still tasted great!

Merric now has that classic gap tooth smile. It is so funny to see him smile and learn how to eat. He lost his tooth in the middle of the night so at 1am I found his light on and went in to see what was up; he was! He was so excited about it and couldn't wait till the tooth fairy would come. Yikes!!!! That meant Paul or I had to stay up and wait till he fell asleep. An hour later....HE WAS STILL UP. Finally, a few hours later Paul got up and the fairy came. LOL. Made for a very long night for us.

We have decided to join the ICA rally that leaves Fiji the first week in Aug and heads to Vanuatu. Check out the site to see what we will be up to if you want http://www.islandcruising.co.nz/

We then will head over to New Caledonia with them and stop in the Loyalties and clear in there after our stay in Vanuatu. Our final leg will be New Caledonia back to Opua, New Zealand. That is our plans as of today....but if you know us well, you know how quickly they can change.

We have a full week of planned parties, activities and contest with the rally in Malolo lailai this coming week and will fill you in on the details. They have a bikini contest scheduled....do you think I should try??? LOL.