Written in Palau, posted now!
Yesterday was a good knitting day. In the morning I knit an arm for Claire’s monkey stuffed animal and in the early evening I knit the other arm. In the afternoon, we sat on the beach and I started the Twist sweater. I knit for almost 4 hours and finished a ball of yarn. I tried the sweater on and I like it so far! We had tuna for dinner again. The tuna here is amazing!
This morning I woke up with a kink in my left arm. I assume it’s from knitting but it’s kind of weird, more of a range of motion issue than anything else. When I move my arm in certain ways my left forearm muscle hurts like hell. The good news is it’s partially sunny today! We saw our first glimpse of blue sky yesterday, but it was fleeting. This morning looks much better, although it’s still mostly cloudy. The bad new is Randall thinks he has bronchitis or pneumonia or something aweful in his lungs. I think we’re going to visit the medical center in a bit… in the meanwhile, I’ve been doing a bit of reading and I started knitting the body of Claire’s monkey stuffed animal, nice and slowly.
Another post written in Palau, posted now!
Well, first I got a head cold on Sunday and now Randall has it too. Yesterday it wasn’t quite as rainy as the other days here so far, so we did get to sit outside for a while. I knit 2 legs for Claire’s monkey stuffed animal.
On Tuesday we got a ride downtown to an internet cafe that I think had a dial-up connection which really didn’t work wireless. After trying to send an email to my parents for a half hour I logged onto one of their machines that was plugged in and waited 3 minutes for gmail to load. After that we ventured out into the pouring rain to buy an umbrella (our most valuable purchase yet) and grab lunch at the local Mexican restaurant. It was pretty good. We walked around quite a bit in the afternoon while the rain mostly stopped. We checked out the 2 dive shops we’re considering diving with and we had an awesome tuna dinner.
I wrote this post from Palau, but didn’t have fast internet to post it.
Hello!
I’m in Palau! It’s pouring rain here (there’s a tropical storm passing though) but I’m glad to be here! I had a nice few days in Guam where Randall and I got Nitrox certified (so we can breathe higher percentages of oxygen while diving and stay down longer at a given depth). We also decided to buy our own SCUBA gear (the stuff we didn’t already have) since the price was right and we’re planning on going diving a ton in the next month.
We went on 4 dives in one day in Guam (part of the deal for buying our own gear was a discount). On the dives we saw lots of fish, a shark, and 2 octopi! One of the octopi was really cool because it changed colors when it moved to camoflage with the rock. We saw lots of Lion fish on one dive– they were really pretty. I also saw an eel.
The past 2 days we’ve been relaxing indoors because of all the rain. We’re hoping it will clear up soon so we can enjoy the beach and go diving!!
So far I finished the back of the Cabled Cardigan on the plane ride from Houston to Narita (Tokyo — a 12 hour 45 min flight) and I finished one RPM sock in Socks that Rock Moss Agate (started on the same flight — these 3 photos were taken in the Narita airport —
and finished in a hotel lobby protected from the tropical storm rain and wind). I started some lace from a German pattern (in same lobby) but I messed up so I ripped it all out when we got back to our bungalow. With all the traveling and now all the rain, I’m getting some good knitting time in!! (although I haven’t knit on the beach yet– too wet and windy).
You can see there was some pretty major pooling in the gusset…
