Muna Season

Things are getting a little bit busier around here for me. But I'm sure none of you want to hear about me working in the kitchen or scanning documents. Time for a fun post!

First of all, we had a nice big earthquake here yesterday. It was a 6.3 on the Richter scale. I was in my house making dinner and at first I thought the boys were pranking me and rattling the house... until the whole place started shaking so much that things were falling off of shelves! I wasn't scared though. Nothing was damaged, so it was kind of fun!

Second - it is Muna season - that special time of year that marks the beginning of the wet season. Muna come out and fly all over the place in the evenings.
This is muna... they look kinda like june bugs back home.
The nationals eat muna. It's supposedly a tasty little snack. Many of the staff here eat them every year. So I, of course, needed to experience this delightful tradition as well.
This is me holding the muna. I was not pretending to eat it... I was screaming because the legs were clinging to me and I couldn't get it off.

This is Andy and I pulling off the heads & legs of the live muna...Here is the bowl of carnage - heads & legs, and a few wings too.
I had made pork steaks in gravy, so we used the leftover gravy to fry up the muna.
Here is the proof that we actually did eat them. It was not delicious, but the gravy helped a lot.While I'm glad that I tried it, because I really do want to experience all I can while here in PNG, I don't plan on eating them again. Or any other bugs. But we'll see! :)