visitor

Saturday was a beautiful day... too nice to spend inside on a computer punching away on the keys in order to get an assignemnt done. Saturdays have always been sacred to me. Waking up on a Saturday morning is a great feeling, especially when you know you don't have any commitments and you can take the day as it comes.  I will always remember my first Saturday in Fiji. I was gutted that we had to dress up in shirt and tie and go to work. I can picture it in my head now..  I was walking out of my flat down the hill to the main road where we would catch the windowless bus to the next village. I was reminiscing of the Saturdays gone by and how relaxing and fun they were, I think I may have even closed my eyes and pictured myself washing my motorbike and then taking it for a ride.
  Needless to say Saturdays on my mission became more meaningful and productive. It wasn't long before I released that I had some important work to do and I needed every second of every day to ensure I got all my work done.

Back to the Saturday just gone, we had decided to catch up with Dan or stinky Dan as the girls call him, and his family. He is stinky Dan because he drives a diesel. We followed back from a camping trip once and the girls just associate Dan with the big stinky car.

As we were getting in to our own car on Saturday I noticed an echidna heading down the hill towards our place.

 I quickly go the girls out of the car to go and take a look. I am not sure if they had seen an Echinda before.

 

we got to have a poke and a prod. We convinced both girls to have a feel, although Milly took a lot more convincing than Hanisi. 

What a treat it was to have such and amazing creature come to our house to say hello. We sure are lucky to live in such a beautiful place, and we are lucky that we have weekends to enjoy it.