Madeline chats with us from the doorway of her house.

We had a nice walk through the village of Hanavave and along the road to Omoa... just nice to walk a little and Isobel ran on ahead of us. Through out town there were Grapefruit "Pompulmose" and limes laying on the ground. On our way back through town, we asked a woman where the market was. Her name was Anne and she led us to the store... where we found out there was no place in town to change dollars for French Polynesian Francs! Ah well, I would have to hike to Omoa to change some money... While we were in the store Isobel was oggling the Franks and beans and Ice Cream... Anne took us to her Mom's (Madeline) where she gave us some Pompulmose off the tree. We wandered further up the road to where we meet Simon who was carving little tikis out of bone... after watching him and chatting a bit, he gave us a stalk of bananas... As we came down the hill, Anne waved us on... she went into the store and bought us eggs, Franks and beans and Ice Cream!! Wow... such generosity. Later on the beach we met Guy and Canela who had come to the island as tourists from tahiti, where they lived. Canela had grown up here and they were here to be with her parents a little after being gone for two years. She was saying that when she was young on the island the people spent much more time together, doing things like having Sunday together with a big pot luck dinner and dancing and music... now there is not so much of that as now there is electricity and TVs, etc...