It's Tuesday morning here in Lae,  PNG.   we were supposed to have gone to Finschhafen yesterday,  but heavy rains in Finschhafen kept the speedboat from coming to pick us up.   Today looks better and we got word that the speedboat is on its way.   Daniel discovered that the International phone plan he had arranged for with his phone company explicitly for Australia and PNG doesn't work here.  So, he purchased a local phone and we were pleasantly surprised to find that he was able to create a hot spot with that phone through which we are able to get on the Internet.   I am using that hot spot to update the blog this morning.   As you can see from the pictures,  Alex tried to get a second date with a stewardess at Cairns,  airport,  but discovered that she was very two-dimensional,  and just a "painted up city woman" (she is a cardboard cutout if you hadn't noticed).  Since we couldn't go to Finschhafen yesterday,  we also visited the memorial to Amelia Earhardt since this was the last place she was seen alive as she took off from the Lae airport and then disappeared over the Pacific.   The other picture is of the 4 of us from the Central States Synod,  and our two main hosts, Pastor Walter Tuenzac and Pastor Mesere standing in front of the guest house where we have been staying.   We will have more to report after this afternoon's boat ride and arrival at Finschhafen.