A Trip to the Market!!!

For those of you wondering, WE ARE ALIVE AND WELL!!!

We have been busy with school, work, visitors, household work and... of course with shopping... :-)

Every other week, a couple of us ladies here get together and go with the car to the big market outside of Wamena. Last week there was only me and another lady, so I took the whole gang with me. Instead of school we went shopping!?!

The kids enjoyed it, even if it looks like some didn't!!!

On the left are the patatos, on the right are the carrots!!! What a difference...

Hot peppers and peperoncinis of every size and color...

For meat we have the choice between big CUSCUS...  (The cuscus is an animal that lives only in the tropical island of Papua and the Northern forest of Australia. The cuscus is a subspecies of possum and it actually is the largest of the world's possum species.)

... and cute, soft, fury, sweet little bunnies...

WE DIDN'T BUY ANY MEAT!!!

These bananas and pineapples came home with us. Both fruits here in Papua are the best we have ever had. Very sweet and tasty!!!

Deborah asked for some sugar cane and we bought one for 30 cents. We cut it up and she is running around sucking the juice and spitting the rest like the papua kids here...

The ladies here are selling the bananas and avocados above them and the cut up vegetables on the floor. They fill bags with mixed, cut vegetables and sell them for 50 cents a piece.

Noemi and Birgit tried to bargain for a typical Papua NET. Not much success!!! White skin and red hair don't help...