Today we had a great breakfast at our hotel, loaded the bus and began our 1 hour ride to beautiful Pacific Harbour we stopped at a place called Arts Village in Pacific Harbour for the students to shop and take pictures. We then got back on the bus and drove about 5 minutes to a house where they had snacks waiting for us. The people came with us and we drove about 5 minutes to a little town Navua. There we got on our life jackets and boarded “long boats”. These boats are very long, there is a captain and he uses the outboard motor to drive. We had 5 boats. We boated down the river where the movie Anaconda was filmed. Don’t worry there were no snakes. After about 40 minutes we stopped at a village. We all put on our sarongs and boys put on their sulu’s. We entered the village chief first, then spokesperson, boys then girls. We were greeted in their getting house where they welcomed us with a Kava celebration and performed dances. We then walked the village and visited their school. We came back to the greeting house for lunch. They performed more dances and we all danced, and it was time to board the long boats again. We boated for about 20 minutes and half of us walked through the rainforest to a beautiful waterfall where we jumped into the water and swam around. Then we went and got on a raft that they use for going to the market and rafted down the river for a few minutes. We joined our other groups and began our journey back up the river in our long boats. It was another awesome day. Tomorrow we leave at 3:00am for the airport to fly to New Zealand. I will try and communicate ASAP with you but do not worry sometimes internet is hard to find. We will take good care of your wonderful children.
Connie and Brian