It was Easter 1990, and my family was on a onceinalifetime trip to the Solomon Islands for my sister's wedding.
I was traveling with my husband, my fouryearold son and my daughter,who was nearly two.We'd been __41__ it was very hot in the Solomons, so we'd __42__ lots of light cotton clothes and were wearing the same as it was summer. The only problem was that we had to catch an overnight bus that __43__ at midnight for the airport so we could make our early morning __44__ to Honiara. It was cold on the bus! My husband and I were snuggling (依偎) our children as best we could, trying to keep them __45__. The bus stopped many times as passengers got on and off, and we didn't take much __46__. The little ones were __47__, unable to sleep for the biting cold. Then at one stop, an old lady came forward from the back of the bus and paused by our seat. I sat forward to see what she wanted and she __48__ out a small knee rug (毛毯). My little girl reached __49__ for it and pulled it tight __50__ her.The lady said she'd made the rug herself and, seeing that we were cold, she wanted us to use it.After she went back to her seat, our nowwarm children __51__ off, and they slept snugly all the way to the airport.Just a stop or two __52__ we arrived,the rug lady made her way to the door to get off. I tried to __53__ the children to return her blanket, but she protested.“No,”she said,“__54__ it. I can always make another one!”
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