Kava and lovo in Geelong

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Yesterday the lads cooked a lovo with chicken, lamb, pork, dalo etc. and we had a good party last night with about forty people cramming into our house. It was a meeting for the Fiji Geelong Friendship Club but also there were four people having birthdays - Jordan, George, Pangea and Andrew. Lots of kava drinking, loud conversation, kids playing on the X box in another room, and a good time. Two friends who now live in Queensland were down for the weekend so it was good to catch up with Ken and Selai. Some new friends too, Janita, Mark and Jo. Vina'a va'alevu.

Fiji Geelong Friendship Club Picnic

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Today we had our Christmas breakup of the Fiji Geelong Friendship Club by having a barbeque at the Barwon Valley Park near the river. Unlike yesterday when we had a kind of hurricane in the late afternoon, it was a lovely sunny day. We had about thirty people there and the children enjoyed the parkland, adults drank kava, and we had a delicious lunch.