Tomorrow is our last day at Musket Cove, and we have enjoyed our stay even though the weather has been terrible. Although the low pressure system is still hovering over Fiji with a hurricane nearby and no end in sight, Monday-Wednesday afternoon were free of rain so we were able to lay around at the beach, kayak, and snorkel. We still haven't seen the sun, but on those 3 afternoons we could see a bright spot behind the clouds and actually got a bit of color! One day there was even a small patch of blue sky in the distance, but that was it: a constant, hovering blanket of grey. On those days we all wandered around in our bewilderment with hesitant fingers poking the sky saying "That might be a blue spot over there...or maybe there one is!" We had forgotten the color of blue and had difficulty distinguishing it from the range of greys in the sky. There is terrible flooding in parts of Fiji, and it sounds like there is also in Australia, Brazil, and England, so we are lucky to get out of here before even more rain or a hurricane hits. We met a really nice Kiwi/British couple and had a great time chatting and playing Scrabble with them.
Familiarities from a past life haunt new spaces and linger in their silences: sometimes we hear our cell phones (which we've left behind) vibrating in the next room. And sometimes I hear the creak of our staircase or my grandmother's bare feet or my mother's silver bracelets or the drone of Sunday football or the silence of fresh snow, but mostly I just hear the rain. We look forward to our time in New Zealand...
- Jesikah
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