Long Live the King!

Well, his royal highness King Siaosi (George) Tupou V has arrived in Neiafu. The first major event was supposed to be a large church service Sunday night. Well the children's choirs were there, the princess and queen were there, but the king decided not to show for some reason. There was a bit a feeling of resentment in town today. The military parade is tomorrow and there is a street party tomorrow night that we are going to then we are out of here. There are lots of beautiful anchorages in Vava'u that we want to explore so we plan to spend around two weeks out and about then back here to Neiafu for re-supply, then back out again, should be fun. Our snail mail arrived yesterday with David's (S/V Toketie) oldest son. Always nice to receive bills from Canada. We have to spend some time tomorrow trying to straighten out the mess with Cathy's taxes and BC health care. Apparently, they applied the refund due Cathy to the theoretical debt we owed the BC government when they unilaterally re-instated our medical coverage in June after we cancelled it in January. I suspect that getting the money back from them may be a tad difficult.
I am slowly getting the pictures from Niue on the web sire. Some are there now and the rest will be there in the next day or so. Internet here is somewhat erratic.

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