We found a placenta...

Quite often Holly, Molly, and I will go on walks. One of our favorite walks is to the sea wall. We have seen some of the most beautiful sunsets from this spot and have had some pretty deep conversations…oh the woes and worries of unmarried BYU students. We had a pretty interesting encounter the other day. We were chilling at the sea wall, relaxing before having to participate in the Lautoka parade. I was looking down at the water when I spotted something quite disturbing: a bean shaped sac which had some vasculature and appeared to have an umbilical cord. Us brilliant premed students put our heads together and quickly came to the conclusion it was a placenta that had been lost at sea for a few days…which meant that there was a dead mother out there somewhere! All of us knew what we had to do: we had to get it out of the water to take a closer look. It was starting to feel like we had all been dropped onto the set of CSI Miami. I quickly run to an alley and found a cardboard box so we could scoop it out of water. Molly and I bravely climbed down the crab infested sea wall to the placenta. With the help of a plastic bag we got the placenta into the box and lifted it out of the water.

As we took a closer look we began to think perhaps it wasn’t a placenta, but maybe an organ of a whale or some sort of large sea animal. Seconds later we asked a passing Fijian what he thought it was. “Oh, that’s a cow’s stomach. Tasty to fry. You want to fry it? You can if you want!” We all laughed at ourselves and were slightly embarrassed for so willingly jumping to conclusions about there being a dead mother out in the ocean and us finding the evidence of some horrible crime. 

Anyway, the picture below was taken tonight at the sea wall. That’s me and Holly. And yes, that is my pink underwear sticking out above my shorts. This picture is dedicated to my father for always repping the tighty whities (sp?) at least 3 inches above his pants. Love you.