What's your average day look like?

We were recently asked in a letter what our typical day looks like, - so I'll try.

Alex and I sleep in a double bed, we have a locally made wooden frame with a 3-inch foam mattress and mosquito net. We have to be quiet when we sleep at night because if we are too loud we'll wake up the baby parrot, who will cry for an incredibly long time before it drifts back off to sleep. Sometimes our cat will come snuggle with us, and sometimes she won't and sometimes she will sing out in the middle of the night to wake us up so she can show off her prey she's caught, either a lizard or a mouse. We sleep in later than most of our community. Alex is typically the first out of bed around 6am and I'm typically out of bed before 7. We'll build a fire and cook breakfast. Our favorite and most common breakfasts are fried sweet potatoes, pancakes or bananas. Breakfast will be finished by 9 and then it's time for the real work to begin. Everyday is different, there isn't an overly typical day as of yet. We're trying to learn more about water systems in Vanuatu so we''ve got multiple books and manuals we are reading. We walk to the gardens 2 or 3 times a week. We cut grass on Tuesdays and we wash clothes on Tuesdays and Saturdays. People will come to our house and we'll story-on about life and America and cultural differences and water systems and such things. We cook our own lunch most days, and just like breakfast, it's a bit of a process. We eat a lot of sweet potatoes and taro for lunch. After lunch we'll do more of what we were doing in the morning. Dinner is our biggest meal of the day and the meal most likely to be more western. We eat pasta about once a week on average and beans once a week too. We try to get more creative with our evening meals than we are for breakfast or lunch. After dinner, we are finished for the day and it's our time to read and play the guitar and watch sunsets and talk about our future plans and such things. We typically crawl into bed between 7 and 8, Alex will read for a while every night and I'll write a blog if I'm up for it.