(Kiri goes into the details of her trip to Sirius for the ski races by starting off with her impressions of the Festival of Fish celebrated by Leah and Bunny’s family who reside by the ocean. We hear about the family and the loss of Leah and Bunny’s mother during another Festival of Fish. She returned as well back to the family home and we get an update on her dad and Gonzo plus what she learned about the daughter of Lyka and Leah. There are some genetics discussed that are fascinating when paired with the rest of the information channeled about the pregnancy.) 

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Russ: ……..exciting, interesting and all of the above.

Kiri: oh yeah, the Festival of Fish was unusual to say the least.

Russ: how did that go, how did our…..

Kiri: I’d never been to a festival like that before.

Russ: our competing champions doing?

Kiri: she’s doing fine, she’s doing fine.

Russ: did Leah catch one?

Kiri: sorry?

Russ: did Leah catch one?

Kiri: oh yeah.

Russ: and Huna of course probably caught one.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: all right Huna.

Kiri: and they're both wrapped up at the moment.

Russ: wrapped up in like bandages and casts?

Kiri: Leah has a broken arm.

Russ: good call.

Kiri: uh-huh and Bunny has a broken leg as well as a broken arm and……

Russ: as well as a broken arm?

Kiri: uh-huh.

(Russ starts laughing so hard he coughs)

Russ: who the heck…..oh well.

Kiri: well Bunny caught a…..let me do the maths here…….a 210 pound……no sorry, a 195 pound fish.

Russ: pretty good-sized.

Kiri: yeah she’s only I think about…..maths time again…..a 122 of your pounds?

(Russ whistles)

Kiri: and Leah caught a 152 pound fish, I caught a 95 pound fish.

Russ: oh you’re going for small fry huh?

Kiri: well I went first actually, it’s quite a funny sport.

Russ: yeah being as you’re catching them by your bare hands there.

Kiri: uh-huh, not allowed to use any of your abilities. The first one that I caught was not allowed, they threw mud at me because I caught a 295 pound one.

Russ: uh-huh, I’ll bet you did.

Kiri: uh-huh. Well it didn’t put up much for fight so they figured out that I’d actually coerced it but I didn’t know that.

Russ: what do you mean you didn’t know that, you didn’t mean to?

Kiri: well I didn’t know that was one of the rules that you can't use any of your abilities.

Russ: oh, a 295 pound fish, how big is that?

Kiri: it’s big.

Russ: I can imagine.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: "Jaws" of the river there.

Kiri: it was big, it was about 8 foot long and it could’ve swallowed me.

Russ: oh geez.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: so you actually just got it there, it sat there going kind of, “huh”?

Kiri: no, I wrestled it and once I got into it's mind……yeah.

Russ: it calmed right down.

Kiri: uh-huh and that was it, pushed it to the shore and put it on the shore and that was it.

Russ: at which point they started throwing mud at you huh?

Kiri: uh-huh, it was quite funny actually.

Russ: I can imagine, so you caught yourself a little tiny one too..

Kiri: yeah, really caught it and almost tore my arm off, those things are slippery and tough.

Russ: yeah well 295 pounds of fish without your coercion it would have taken you and…..

Kiri: would’ve broken me to pieces.

Russ: yeah, it'd still be a reconstruction.

Kiri: uh-huh and when I saw Bunny go after her fish…..how much did I say it was, 210?

Russ: 195.

Kiri: that was Leah’s I think.

Russ: Leah’s was 152.

Kiri: yeah 152. Yeah I mean I thought she had lost it, I saw her go under the water and she was down there for a while.

Russ: wow.

Kiri: and then she came up and bam against a rock, I think that’s when she broke her leg and she just kept on going and when she broke her arm she actually kept her arm wrapped around its neck and you could see the blood just seething out of her arm.

Russ: God dang.

Kiri: uh-huh and then she dragged it to the shore and sat down and it’s sort of like she goes, “I need to see a doctor.” So I went and got a doctor and when I came back Leah was sitting there saying that she also needed a doctor and Lyka was doing a battlefield dress on both of them.

Russ: oh that’s good.

Kiri: uh-huh. Yeah she had….

Russ: too bad Karra wasn’t there, she could have helped out.

Kiri: oh it was a pity but it was just the four of us that went.

Russ: oh really?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: so what did you do to the fish?

Kiri: oh we ate it.

Russ: oh.

Kiri: yeah.

Russ: even the 295 pound one?

Kiri: no.

Russ: you threw that back.

Kiri: yeah we threw the other two back because they were alive. I unfortunately had mine out of the water longer than it could take so it had to be eaten which isn’t too bad.

Russ: even a 95 pound fish, that’ll feed all four of you and then some.

Kiri: oh yeah, we carried it down, the doctor and myself on a gurney and we had Bunny and Leah on another gurney and Lyka walking along behind so we walked all the way back down then we had a big fish fry.

Russ: excellent.

Kiri: uh-huh. Do you know how many there is of Bunny and Leah’s family?

Russ: I would say quite a few compared to what I was just doing of Bunny’s transcription.

Kiri: uh-huh, there was over 2,000 of them there. There was two guys that were having a headbutting contest.

Russ: oh yeah, shaking a few nuts out of the tree were they?

Kiri: oh yeah, most certainly, it was quite funny actually.

Russ: that would be pretty good but 2,000 huh?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: wow.

Kiri: and there were other groups that went off and did the fish contest but apparently it’s only a woman's sport.

Russ: hmm that’s strange.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: I wonder why the men don’t participate, too easy for them?

Kiri: probably, that’s what they were claiming.

Russ: uh-huh, I would too.

Kiri: yeah, the impression I got was that Leah and Bunny’s part of the family is the rich, well-to-do and the rest are sort of like let me see, what would be a good description? Rednecks?

Russ: you know you’re a redneck if you have to take your toothpick out for your wedding photos.

Kiri: yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. How do the jokes go? You might be……if your girlfriend.......let me get the accent right, if your girlfriend wears a backless dress and wears her bra, you might be a redneck.

Russ: how about this one? You might be a redneck if you’ve been married three times and you still have the same in-laws.

Kiri: or how about this one? If you introduce your wife and your sister and there’s only one person, you might be a lowland beach bum.

(Leah and Bunny’s family are located on the coast of Sirius)

Kiri: they were certainly a very strange bunch, very friendly and affectionate but it was definitely you could tell the two parts of the family.

Russ: is there a matriarch or patriarch or some leader of the family?

Kiri: not really.

Russ: hmm.

Kiri: there’s the…..

Russ: I know with the highlanders it's different….

Kiri: oh yes.

Russ: and that is the one and only leader of the family.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: and there is no quarreling or quibbling or nothing.

Kiri: no there was a lot of not quarreling but trying to dominate who was the boss and everything. I mean there was Bunny’s father, now he’s an interesting character.

Russ: really? Do tell.

Kiri: very shy, very reclusive, he only came out I think like three times?

Russ: that’s where Leah got her shyness from.

Kiri: uh-huh yeah. Very shy and…

Russ: where did Bunny get her extroverted style?

Kiri: from her late mother.

Russ: late mother?

Kiri: uh-huh, yes, her mother tried to set a new record with a fish and unfortunately paid the price.

Russ: well so did you, you almost paid the price.

Kiri: uh-huh, yeah. Yeah she got drowned, she wouldn’t give up. Sounds very much like Bunny, doesn’t it?

Russ: uh-huh.

Kiri: uh-huh but she wasn’t as......what’s the word? In a high sexual state as much.

Russ: hmm. But Bunny already had caught a fish.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: so she wasn’t out to set any records.

Kiri: oh no, she was just to have fun.

Russ: Jesus.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: so what does it look like, are they like jumping off these falls right?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: and they get in these like pools and you go in the pools and go try to grab them as they’re in the pools or something?

Kiri: nope, as they’re going up the waterfalls.

Russ: you stand in the waterfall?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: the water’s pouring down on your head, the fish are jumping up and you’re trying to catch the fish in the middle of a waterfall?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: okay.

Kiri: yep.

Russ: and Lyka of course couldn’t participate.

Kiri: no. The first time I tried I caught one and it was a medium-sized one, I think maybe 150 pounds and I had a hold of it and lost it. And then I tried another one and I couldn’t do it so Bunny suggested that I remove all my clothing.

Russ: naturally.

Kiri: so I did and it was actually easier to catch.

Russ: hmm, I imagine you lost some skin though.

Kiri: uh-huh well I had a T-shirt on and my bikini bottom and it was sort of like with the slime on the fish, it was very hard to catch a hold of once my T-shirt got slimy and got very soaked.

Russ: hmm, the trick is you can’t wash it off.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: interesting.

Kiri: whereas on the skin you can.

Russ: hmm, good point. Hey thanks for sending me the e-mail.

Kiri: oh you’re welcome, you’re welcome.