Rae and I got up early so that we would have time to go for our run and still be ready in time to pick up the car we rented to go to Ba. Ba is the town where Rae is stationed, it is in the northeast of Viti Levu.
Our car was too cute, really so cute that it was not suited for Fiji. It looked like a mini but had the clearence of a doxin. We headed north on the costal road which like most of fiji was ocianic.
Ba is a cute village, primarily indian the houses are well kept and the yards gated. The gates and the dogs are to prevent theft which Rae says has been a problem since the first coup (just before my firt visit here). We stoped at the Senior Center where Rae works but they were having a dental health presentation so we went to her house to drop off the things we bought for Rae and to visit her host family...
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Rae's 'uncle' reminded me a bit of Papa Mac my maternal grandfather, he showed us his garden...turns out that gardening in Fiji works really well. Her 'Auntie' reminded me of an excited bird. There was alot of face touching. They offered us 'juce' which in Fiji means soda, in this case kind of Lemonata but sweeter. Thre dog was cute, huge not quite floppy ears and a little stubby tail. Rae's cat chote was also cute and afectionate. We distributed the gifts we bought, Jhonny Walker for uncle and silk flowers for auntie.
We drove back to the senior center, it was full of very sweet afectionate indian grandmothers! They were sweet, we had 'Cha' ie 'Chai' and Badgi which are little chickpea and spinich fritters, delicious. The two younger woemen who ran the center were interesting. Dorthy who has had both her hips replaced, looks to be late 20's and Ravi who is a bit older and irrepressable. She has the most inapropriate conversations with Rae. She invited us to come see her village next week, it is a historical colonial settlement near the mill that was the primary source of industry near the turn of the century.
We stoped on our way back to try to get to a beach that Rae had seen the sign for. The car couldn't handle it but we got half a mile down a beautiful dirt road and took some great pictures. We also snuck off into a cane field to pee.
In Laotoks we stoped to drop off the alchohol that we had bought for Tim, Rae's peice corps friend. He went out to dinner with us. On the way Chris finaly tried to drive on the wrong side of the road :) We ate at a little indian resturaunt that had the spiciest best samosas and these sausages wraped in roti with cheese and carrots and a yougure sauce that were amazing! The owner was making an order of 25 for the prime minister who was passing through town and always gets them for his whole family... they were that good.
It was late when we got back and we pretty much crashed.
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