Diana and Emilyon the final flight
of their home trip.
View towards themountains from the air.
In celebration of being nowhere near yesterday’s earthquake, we thought we would post a couple of pictures from Em and Diana’s return trip home and one movie from earlier in the summer. Diana had a fun helicopter ride from Timika (in the Lowlands) to Tembagapura (home up in the mountains). We had to rely on another passenger for the photography, so it took a couple of weeks to get the pictures. The other good news is that the new 25-passenger helicopter is now flying which means much easier travel to and from the Lowlands for more people.
The short movie is title “I Know Why The Caged Baby Sings”. She actually sounds more like a pterodactyl, but we’ll pretend she’s a song-bird! Diana likes to watch what’s going on in the neighborhood from our front porch. She gets the most excited about other kids playing in the street. Of course, Ben was up there with her so don’t call social services!
The other big milestone is that Diana went 2-for-2 pointing to “mommy” and “daddy” during her bath last night. So, we’ve moved up from “food-provider 1” and “food-provider 2”, which is good news.
Martin would really love that helicopter ride.
Also we are glad you guys were far from the earthquake.
I suck. I didn’t hear there was an earthquake until today and by the time I could panic it was too late to panic. Back on the blog, reading about your life. Miss you all.