Hector asked, "Do you want to be the second love of my life for the rest of your life?" I said yes.

Everybody gets together to help get ready for a wedding party.

Meat and rice and


more RICE!

A typical wedding party. They have already had the wedding ceremony in the mosque.

This is a wedding reception where we eat "all together." Sometimes this means 4 people eating from the same platter but here we each have our own plate of rice and share the other main dishes.

I love the fact that I can wonder into a strainers yard out of the jungle and be invited to have coffee and coconut water from a coconut right off a tree.

"It tastes like fruit, and meat, and dirty socks."


I thought that was a good way someone described durien candy. Someone else said the candy tasted like amaxasilin. Well, this was the real thing not just the candy. It's defiantly a lot more enjoyable to me when it's shared among friends.