And then there were three...

Our afternoon project to make sure eggs and bunnies don't take over this Easter. Hopefully soon, with a bit of rain and sun it will be a green hill..

There is a green hill far away,
outside a city wall,
where our dear Lord was crucified
who died to save us all.

What else can you do when you've had a gigantic first meal? Lay back and relax, while your sibling navel gazes

Finally my first Easter Hat Parade as a school boy

Golaso

Isaac writes: This is elijah playing football. His thighs are peaking right now. His boot powers through the sweet spot on the ball as it whistles through the air. His technique is sublime as he drops his shoulders and powers through the ball with the outside of the boot. He then finesses the ball to the left, looking for glory. The man in the background (top left) sips his drink as he looks on in bewilderment as Elijah puts the balls into the back of the net.

The transparent masterpiece

Isaac writes: This is a window in Bethany's brand spanking new art room. She drew this transparent beauty on the window. It shows the real beauty of flowers and Bethany made a wish while the petals flew away (metaphorically speaking). The white reflects the cleanness of the new room as the floating away petals symbolises the distance from her bedroom (as there are two doors in between). The eye at the bottom of the picture shows that this art work is coming out of Bethany's eye and can be interpreted through everyones eye differently. Mother bought a vintage desk for her to make masterpieces that are so beautiful like this one.

Shimmer's third clutch of eggs

Hamish writes: Shimmer's third clutch - 8 eggs. Quite a lot! One of the eggs hatched two days ago and this little guy came out. S/he is about the size of my thumb nail!! I wonder if there's a chick in every egg. And what colours will they be this time?

Today we went to WAHOO! And it was WAHOO! Mum and Dad went snorkeling and saw some beautiful clown fish, black and white striped fish and other fish. Isaac and I collected glass from coke bottles left behind from WW2 when the US had soldiers in Vanuatu – Hamish.

Today we went around Efate. First we stopped off at wahoo were we did some snorkeling. After going snorkeling Hamish and Isaac collected bits of glass from the old glass coke bottles WEIRD. Then we stopped off at a small village selling coconuts so we bought 9! On the way to the hot springs we had a few lols. When we got to the hot springs we were heaps disappointed. It was just a huge puddle of mud and some boiling hot water from under the earth. Last but not least we stopped off at Eton beach. At first we stopped off because some people needed to go to the toilet but we decided to have a swim and so we did. It was a great day! - Bethany

Last night we watched a war dance now you are probably thinking a war dance would be boring like I did but it was hilarious, weird and Elijah thought some of it was a bit scary. We all really enjoyed it! Now I know I am not supposed to be writing about this but yesterday we swam with turtles it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool and amazing. I was like wow and everybody was like wow.

Hi Hamish here! Today we did something so awesome… We drove for about ½ an hour to a place called Turtle Bay. Soon after we arrived we saw some baby turtles – 1 month, 2 months, 10 months and 1 year old. The youngest baby turtles flipped their flippers in my hand and some of them just looked like shells with heads when they tucked their flippers in. We also saw some very huge and ugly coconut crabs. They can claw your finger off so we didn’t touch them. After the patting pool we went to a much larger ocean pool where we fed some huge turtles and saw some reef sharks swimming around. One of the turtles was 70 years old, one was 8o years old. There were smaller ones too. But the best bit of all was when we SWAM with the turtles. Their shells feel hard but slippery and I held onto the shell of one of the big ones and went for a ride! It was sooooo AWESOME! Unfortunately, at the end one of the turtles thought that Elijah’s arm was a piece of pawpaw and he bit his arm – but he was very brave and not many 3 year old boys can say they were bitten by a turtle.

Today was soo cool !! We went to Hideaway Island. We went snorkeling and saw some amazing different coloured fish. It was awesome. We then bought some waterproof postcards and wrote on them. We swam out with them to the underwater post office and posted them. I posted mine to myself as a reminder 4 when we get home. Tomorrow we change where we stay. It will be sad saying goodbye to people but we’re still in Vanuatu and the next place we stay should be just as good! So I am excited.  Posted by BethanyJ.

Hamish posts… Yesterday I went fishing off a catamaran with Mum and John. I caught a little fish called a Redmouth. We also saw a turtle in the water and it was windy so the catamaran went really fast sometime. Other times it was slow and we relaxed in the sun. In the afternoon John took me up to the stone fire and a lady came to clean the fish. When the lady left John put the fish on the end of a sharp stick and stuck it in some rocks to cook it. He turned the stick around two times. When it was cooked John took it off the stick and pinched its skin to open it up and I ate it – YUM YUM !!!!!!!

Today we went to a Vanuatu church at Pango Village with a lady called Elodia, who works for Scripture Union. Pango Village is her home. After church we had a picnic with them Elodia and the Paschke family. We ate Tuluk and other food. We played ball games too, which was fun. After lunch we went to the beach, but didn’t swim because it was low tide. We looked for shells and made sand castles. It was fun even though I couldn’t understand a thing that they were saying at church because it was all in Bislma. Posted by Bethany J.