The Chateau Dusseau

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Betik & Stuff

I took a few pictures of the guys in their new betik shirts from our trip to Indonesia... Liam also got his first hit in baseball the other day... Here are a few photos.

Owen in his new Indo jersey

Monday, July 4, 2011

We spent today driving into Jakarta and seeing some sights and shopping. We first visited the old Dutch part of town in what was originally Batavia. We had some coffee at the beautiful Cafe Batavia and visited the national museum, etc... The cafe is said to have one of the top ten bars in the world. Strangely enough it is covered in cow hide.

Old Dutch Government building

Old City Square

Cafe Batavia... duh.

Supposedly a top 10 bar in the world (according to Newsweek)

Just to try and show the sheer amount of traffic

We had lunch at a German restaurant which may sound weird but was delicious... Filling enough that dinner tonight was optional. We then did some shopping at one of the large malls in Jakarta and headed home in the crazy traffic. Arif drove today which is quite an adventure with all the cars and millions of little motorcycles.

Tomorrow morning we begin our trip for home. It will be nice to see Liam and Owen and sleep in our own bed.

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Day 9-10 - Travlin' & Chillin'

Not much to report for these days as we traveled from Bali to Jakarta. We didn't have the fun of missing our flight like we did from Jakarta to Bali... But that was easy to live without. We did get to spend a short time in the ocean in the morning playing in the water and boogie boarding. The waves were huge!

Surfing in the ocean

It was nice to get to see where Amy (and Arif now) lives as well as their school. We had gotten the Skype tour previously but this was much better. The girls went and got some massages and shopped on Saturday and the guys just hung out. We had some great fresh seafood again on Saturday night. Enjoy the few pictures I have.

Amy's School

Amy's House (and Arif's now too)

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Day 8 - Rafting

Yesterday we went into the center of Bali again to go white water rafting. The girls were all excited because this was supposed to be some Eat, Pray, Love location tour where they filmed the movie... Whatever.

Rafting was very, very fun (except having to walk all the way back up to the top.

Gettin' Ready

Trudging through the jungle

A Motley Crew (No the band)

Amy is buyount

Arif is hanging out on the outside?

I'm told this is Eat, Pray, Loveish...

After rafting and lunch we came back to the hotel and then went out to watch the sunset on the beach.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Day 7 - Snorkeling

Today we took a van for about an hour drive to the other side of Bali to go snorkeling. We ended up at Bloo Lagoon beach which may sound corny but was wonderful. We hired two small boats to take us for about a five minute dried and then snorkeled for about three hours... I wish I could have taken pictures of the beautiful sea life and corals... It makes me want to fire up my aquarium again. We then had lunch of some calamari, barracuda, marlin, and prawns as well as the surprisingly nice Bintang beer.

On our way out...

Prawns afterwards...

Bintang!

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Day 5-6 - Bali Sightseeing

On Monday we did some local sightseeing while we waited for Amy and Arif to arrive. It was a rainy day but we went up and down the beach and through some of the side streets and did some shopping. We got Liam and Owen their traditional local soccer jersey from where we go.

On Tuesday we hired a car for the day and went into central Bali for a little different flavor. We did some shopping in the market and had lunch at a local place. The food was excellent. Roasted pork, pork skin, fried intestine, and blood sausage.