Here are a stack of photos of our adventures since we got here

 

The beach games were great fun for everyone. It was basically organised chaos. It was very hard to explain game rules to local kids who don't speak English but it all worked out. The local kids had a great time playing with the our crew and our crew had a lot more fun than they expected playing with the local kids. The local kids had so much energy and they worked our crew hard. Everyone was very hot. We were both happy and sad when it was time for the local kids to go (they'd been playing for nearly 1 1/2 hours). The swim afterwards was fantastic and once again well earned. On the way to the beach we carried the 6 (yes, 6!!!) tables we built down to the church and admired our slab again. By the way I should say that the lack of smoothness of the slab was due to the concrete smoothers - Gags and me - hey, we did our best..

Day 3 on our project. Yesterday we built 2 tables with very basic tools and completed the concrete slab. All the concrete was mixed by hand.The tables were tricky. Very hard wood and not the right tools but the crew worked it out. Our host Howard showed the crew how to do basic concreting and off we went. It was hard hot sweaty work but people bent their backs and we got the job done. I can't say it's the smoothest slab I've ever seen - in fact it's probbly the least smooth slab I've ever seen - but the locals are happy with it. It will do the job. Very satisfying days work. Then we walked to the beach (2.6 km each way) through the jungle past some houses and rice paddys and had our well earnt swim and watched the sun set from the water again. Then dinner at the beach restaurant. We also celebrated Ella's birthday with a lovely cake for dessert.
Today we have already built 2 more tables and built a step plus some concrete paving stones. And painted a big Santa for "pin the moustache on Santa" for the church fete tomorrow. Later today we have to run beach games for the local children.