Nothing at all of importance

The American understanding of the utility of the bicycle is sorely lacking.  We see bikes used to transport just about everything.  We recently saw a coffin balanced on the back and these not-too-small pigs are a good example of the livestock we have seen--and of course fitting four or five people is an easy task and relatively normal load.

We spent pday on the beach again and barbequed beef loin for sandwiches--they were excellent.  The wind was up, so there was no serious frizbee playing but we still had a good time.

Perhaps there are shrimp this size in the states, but we never saw them.  We bought a kilo from fisherman on the beach and brought them home with us for dinner tonight (over rice with peppers and sweet chilli sauce).  Very good.  Slowly, we are learning how to access the local food supply.  We had an investigator confront us today with an astounding fact that she had heard--that Americans do not consume "Chima", which is a ball made of corn meal dough.  We confessed that it was indeed absent from most American's daily diet--which she has promised to remedy on our next visit.  Chima is apprently held in the hand and dipped into a sauce for flavor.  It is a local favorite and apparently we will soon learn more about it.

The beef sandwiches were a great hit and we had two left over--which,being  testosterone-laden males, we decided to fight over.  The venue was a round robin tournement of sumo style wrestling (the winner is he who pushes his opponent out of the circle).  Despite my advanced age, I entered the fray and got to the final round against Elder Petersen (who wrestled in college before his mission) who overcame my tiny weight advantage by his obvious cheating.  I was certain that I would be achey and paralysed with back and knee pain the next morning but to my delight we were unscathed (though my ego is still a bit bruised).

This is a Bateleur, a type of eagle.  We see a few birds of prey, but not many.  We spotted this one on the dirt road from Marromeu.