June 1, Sat afternoon This is the urban center of Vanuatu. They have laundry here!! I'm so so so happy! Went to a hotel for a beautiful fat filled breakfast to eat with my Malarone. Well, the eggs and tablespoon of ham has fat. Yes, the way to keep the anti-malaria drug from making me feel yucky is to take once a day with a fat meal. The beautiful part of the breakfast was the piles of fresh local fruit.
Our friends' boat broke the mooring line in the night - scary. It went adrift and got tangled up with some other boats and no serious damage was done. We went to bed at 7 pm after sailing 24 hours including all night and we slept through the whole affair.
I think Barry is SO SO smart!! He can fix everything - engines, water tanks, wifi antenna, tow generator, alternators, regulators, on and on.
He went off in the dinghy to dump trash and get more $ out of the ATM and brought back lunch from the local outside marketplace. Leaves, potatoes, manioc, and yams all with a smoky flavor and wrapped in a banana leaf. Barry calls it a leaf lunch - you know, bag lunch/leaf lunch. And it was a bargain because he got it without the chicken wing. He says the chicken feet go to China, the turkey tails go to Tonga and apparently the chicken wings come to Vanuatu. I think Americans just eat skinless chicken breasts. Do you remember when we were in Tonga and the meat market only had lamb flaps (don't ask me), turkey tails and lard? And we were in China with Leo and had chicken feet?
The money here says "Ripablik Blong Vanuatu" and "Long God yumi stanap". I'm not sure about what long means here.
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