After a busy week of just the usual we had a fun weekend. Bill has found a new friend! Sasa and his wife Sara are staff members here at Kabiufa. Sasa is very musical and loves to play the guitar and write music, so you can just imagine how he and Bill instantly hit it off. Sabbath we invited the family over and Bill and Sasa spent all afternoon happily strumming away on their guitars while the entire family lustily sang along! Sasa has 6 children ranging in age from around 4 to 18 years old and they sing beautifully together in 4 part harmony. They remind me of the Von Trapp singers in "The Sound of Music".
Sunday Bill took me flying with him. This is a special treat as we wives usually have to sit at home for lack of room in the airplane. He was moving a new mission secretary, Pastor Robinson, and his family down to the coastal village of Kikori. While I have often had the opportunity to fly in the Highlands this was my first time down to the coast, so I was excited. Here you see the pilot...
...and the copilot!
I will let you guess from the following photo who was actually doing the flying. (-:
I NEVER tire of the beautiful PNG scenery. The rugged, steep mountains of the Highlands dropping sharply down into deep, narrow gorges with rushing rivers are in sharp contrast to the flat jungle of the coastal regions, crisscrossed with huge, lazy rivers.
This area reminds me so much of Peru, South America were Bill flew as a mission pilot when we first got married. It made me feel a bit homesick. Every where you looked there was another river!
Here you see a little section of hills looking very out of place in an otherwise flat landscape of solid jungle. You can actually see the ocean on the horizon where all these rivers empty out in to.
Coming in for the landing to the village of Kikori. The airstrip is straight ahead. Can you see it?
For all you World War II buffs, this airstrip is left over from the war when they use to just lay down this metal mesh and presto, you had an instant airstrip! Even after all these years it still works pretty good.
Here is Pastor Bill Robinson with his wife and son. That little pile of luggage you see in the back ground are their entire worldly possessions. Don't you wish you could move this easily?
See that big smile on my face? You would be smiling too if you could have joined us on this flight. It was great fun.
