At the end of our tsunam we tour we ate! On the right is Muhaimin, Farah's brother, and Jim on the left is drinking chilled coconut juice from the young coconut...a picture his family will find amusing...as coconut is the one thing he has always disliked.













Acha (a medical student friend of Muhaimin's...we can't say they are a number) is enjoying fresh fish grilled outside. We ate with our fingers and you can see Anita's hand and arm reaching toward the fish dish. 

Local men are hired to work construction - often to re-build their own neighborhoods. Many NGS are involved in house building (Habitat for Humanity, Islamic and Christian groups, the UN, etc.)











Men weighing materials. The local construction materials are cement and bricks. Little evidence of reinforcement - the steel rods we usually place through cement blocks.










The newly constructed of the office of the Governor of Aceh: good example of Acehnese public building style - a portion of the roof is massive, the facade is decorated and bears an official seal, a gate fronts the building.
















Another newly constructed building - of the Sharia - the religious overseers who have the backing of the local
police in enforcing the religious code. Women should wear a veil; there is no dancing in Aceh; no bathing suits at the beach (so how to you swim?); and countless other restrictions we have yet to hear of. 

Typical boats along the river. Houses on the water.














More evidence of wrecked houses. New vegetation surrounds what remains of a 4 story house.

Next to one skeleton of a house (yellow place on the left) is examples of new temporary housing - the small blue houses (on the right).










Closer pictures of the new emergency housing - placed very close together.
 

Ground Zero of the tsunami. In front of a mosque.
Mosques were the first to be rebuilt.
The beautiful countryside of Banda Acheh. Very green
mountains surround the city.
Evidence of tsunami wreckage-similar scenes through the city.
A beached ship. Some ships and a power plant were jossed up to 5 kiloments from their original place. 

Ground zero of tsunami. Beached ship. Ships along the river. Another beached ship.

From Banda Aceh Tsunami tour 2/22/06
This tiny picture shows the countryside of Banda Aceh.

A Thanksgiving Day rainbow in Anacortes

Grandma, Nile, Matt and me when Louise visited us

Winter in Anacortes and Vancouver

Nita and Jim days before departure for Indonesia. Taken on our front porch.

Christmas at Sandy and Glen's in Vancouver. Little girl in white sweater is
Sydney. On the right is Sasha. The girls are 2 of Jim's 4 granddaughters.