Easter Paradise

If any of you wondered what we were up to on Easter weekend, wonder no more. We had Good Friday off as a holiday and naturally didn’t work Saturday. So the 5 people from our team that were here that weekend decided to check out the Island paradise of Pulau Asu. Joe, Laurie, Anneloes, Russ & I. And what an adventure we had.

We drove across to the West Coast of Nias, about a 2 ½ hour drive on a very windy, very bumpy road.

At the end of the road, we hopped on the boat pictured here with about 8 or so other NGO workers who had the same idea as us. These are some of the images that we saw there that weekend. What beauty that God created for us to enjoy!

The white sand beaches and turquoise waters were amazing. The surf was also excellent, and our boogie boarder pro, Joe, caught some great waves. (He actually was pro at one time!)

The palm tree forest was also beautiful to walk through and on the lava rock that we found near the surf, trees were growing right out of the rock!

Russ & I had a lot of fun snorkeling – our snorkeling gear was definitely a worthwhile purchase! Russ got to try out his spear fishing again and actually caught an all-time big fish for spear fishing. I’m not going to go into details – you have to read Russ’ Hunting and Fishing Blog for that. But I am going to share a little video clip of Russ recounting the story here…

Russ also used his newly found skills to climb a coconut tree and harvest some coconuts. What a man!! See the progression…

Have you ever walked through bubbles when someone is blowing them? We had an experience like that except we were walking through a huge group of yellow butterflies! It was SO cool. We were walking through the jungle and all these butterflies would emerge as we were walking by. It was my favourite. We tried to capture it on camera, but I was all that showed up on the picture.

Wish we could really do justice to all that we are experiencing here in Indonesia, but these stories & pictures are the best that we can do. Hope you're enjoying them!

Oh... and just so that there are no misunderstandings... Russ and I ARE actually here to work. We may not talk about it often, but we are loaded with things to do during the day. Maybe I'll post a blog about it one of these days.....