Last night we had our weekly potluck dinner. It was delicious as always.
Some of our food.
The boys messing around.
Today I woke up early to study more for my Fijian test (for some reason last night studying while having some kava didn't do wonders for my knowledge of the language); it ended up being an open book test so it really wasn't bad at all. Since my invertebrate bio class was cancelled for the day, I had to find a way to spend the afternoon. I sure as hell wasn't going to spend it doing work (why would I do homework in Fiji?) so I decided that today would be the day that I would get myself a pet (or two, or three...) so I went downtown to run errands, one of them buying a plastic cookie jar. Once I got back I went for a run to make sure it was low tide, then went back later with Cliff and Eli to pick up some....I know the suspense is unbearable.
Taa-daa! Hermit crabs! Okay so they're not the coolest things in the world. And they don't do much other than scrabble around trying to climb things and waving their antennae around. But I love hermit crabs and they're everywhere and I had a bunch when I was little and they're low maintenance and I miss having pets. I went down to Suva Point (if you call low tide mudflats with trash washed up everywhere I guess this would qualify as a beach), filled up my cookie jar with sand and shells and coral and picked up 5 hermit crabs. The boys got me a couple, including a teeny tiny one about the size of a grain of rice (I'm calling him Mr. Claw). The other 4 are Pinchy, Scuttlefuzz, Jerry, and Ted, although those names may be subject to change. I would point out which ones are which but that's boring for anyone reading this.
I painted their container. It reads "Hermit Estates", a prestigious community for any hermit crab to live in. There's also a palm tree and an ocean painted to the right of this. My artistic skills are clearly very advanced and I'm also losing my mind a little, I think...I miss having pets. I hope I can keep these guys alive long enough and that they don't try to have hermit crab wars between each other. They've had a tiring day of running around bumping into each other and trying to climb the seaglass and coconut shell bits that I stuck in there, so hopefully they'll be too tired to fight for at least another day.
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