Birthday, Easter, Tumultuos Torrents.

Hey Y'all,

I know, I know. It's been a while since you've gotten a word from Temptation Island, so I thought I'd give you what you need. AN UPDATE!

Update Number Un: Health.
I've been hitting the weight bench at the local gym, The Hide-away Gym up in Pokirat. I'm huge! I lost a lot of weight over the last few months, but I've been packing it on and I'm feeling good. My ringworm is gone, no liver damage done, and I can crack a coconut between my bicep and forearm. RAWWRRRR!!!!

Update Number Deux: Birthday.
My birthday came and went. It was okay. I realized that I really missed my friends from home, wherever home is these days, so it was bittersweet. We had a BBQ at the white people apartments and had a huge spread. There was wahoo sasimi, pizza, BBQ, CHEESE!, and a million other things. If you were going to ask if we went to karaoke, you can bet your bottom dollar that we did. I tried to sing a medley of TopGun classics: Highway to the Dangerzone, You Lost that Lovin' Feelin', Take My Breath Away. But they only had Take My Breath Away, so I began with the finale and need I tell you that there was not a dry eye in the house.

Update Number Trois: Rain.
The drought was interrupted by a week of non-stop rain which filled our tank halfway and has been flooding the creek behind our house. Very exciting. But we still have a leak in the tank so we'll see how long it lasts.

Update Number Quatre: Puppies and Easter.
I realized that I hadn't ever mentioned that we had two puppies at our house. Well...three if you count Reggie. Their names were Reggie, Orangie No-Name, and Ruby, and our favorite was Ruby. Well Ruby disappeared, Orangie No-Name became Ruby Two, then disappeared. And finally around Easter day Reggie disappeared. Now it's no secret by now that Pohnpeians eat dogs. It's a fact of life...so it's our best guess that Reggie became an Easter snack for the high ranking people of the Church and village. But I still miss all three of those little bastards.

Easter week was our Spring Break so we went to Cancun. Psych! We sat around and read because it was rainy. But we also went to church with the neighbors a lot, ate a lot of food at the church feasts, and the highlight was going on a great, and arduous, hike called "Six Waterfall Hike," which, aptly enough, has six waterfalls. Swimming, hiking, scrambling, sliding, cliff jumping... this thing had it all. It was a lot of fun, and I'll post pictures as soon as I can.

Well that's a lot of updatin' and some of it may be as hard to digest as a dog rib so I'll leave it at that for now. In the mean time take a warm shower and have a cold beer for me.

Il Duce