Yesterday (tuesday) was Goroka day. The staff took us to
explore the city of Goroka. We started off the day at the
veggie market where there were rows of sweet potatoe,
greens, bananas and sugarfruit. There was also a
meriblouse store. A meri blouse is a the type of shirt
women wear here. It's kinda like a short dress with puffy
sleves. When I get home I'll post a picture of one. There
were all sorts of colors and patterns.

After the veggie market we went to a muesem. There they
had many pictures of how they use to dress. They also had
WWII artifacts as well as ancient artifacts. It was cool
to see. In the back they had a WWII plane.
After the muesem we went to a coffee factory. Coffee is
one of the main cash crops in this part of the country.
Our tour guide showed us the machines used to husk, roast
and package the coffee. It was a small factory, maybe 10
workers total. It was really neat to see.

Our adventure continued with a tour of New Tribes
Aviation's hanger at the airport. There we had our bagged
lunches.

After lunch we headed to the middle of the city, and
parked at the Bird of Paradise hotel. We split into groups
and hit the streets for some shopping. We went to the
artifact market which was on the sidewalk along the hotel.
There I saw what the staff calls the "great wall of
bilums." Bilums are knitted bags that everyone carries
here.
After the artifact market we went shopping at the stores.
Emmerson, our fearless leader, headed the mission to find
that perfect PNG baseball cap for Chuck to buy. We looked
in every store, big and small. We went to one store called
SVS.It's kinda like the super Walmart of PNG. Half of it
was a department store and half a supermarket. It wasn't
very big and there were a lot of people there.
As we continued our search, I picked up stuff for my
family. We also stopped in the christian bookstore