Jakarta -- |
Christopher and Nana went for a walk. Christopher took pictures of bugs and flowers. Apparently, it was not the most delightful of walks. Ravines, mud, and cement streets... Usually the walks are through lovely parks and jungles That's Nana in the yellow shirt and large hat. |
We have a grill. May 21, 2006, Christopher cooked steaks cooked on the grill. We often have s'mores, as well. |
A visit to Bachtiar's house, in honor of Nana's visit. |
Nana's birthday cake, the day she arrived in Jakarta. Arianna decorated it. Annaliese in her Jackie O sunglasses. Not sure of the occasion. Take note of the Dr. Pepper. That's a $2 imported Dr. Pepper. But not a Dublin Dr. Pepper. |
It is almost time for Christopher and the girls to return to Houston for the summer break. Only four more days of school, a quick trip to Bali, then a long plane ride home. Nana will return with them to Houston. In Jakarta for almost one year, a short re-cap seems in order. We arrived on June 30, 2005 (with a pre-arrival trip to Vietnam) and today is June 3, 2006. In that time, we have created the website, 24 javalogues, and 12 photo album pages. We have traveled to Bali, Pantera Island of the 1000 Islands, Singapore, Australia, and Turkey as a family, Annaliese has been to Pulau Putri and Bali, and Arianna traveled around China. We have acquired only a few things... some furniture (mostly bookshelves), a ping pong table (just last week), some framed art, and a few rugs. Arianna is still playing soccer and has a pick-up game this afternoon. She has organized it, reserved the field, and arranged to have the lights turned on before dark. 10 or 12 other girls will show up. She had two friends over last night and they played ping pong, jumped on the trampoline, and swam for most of the morning. Annaliese's SAT scores were posted yesterday. Typical of her, she blew away the verbal. Even I am impressed. She will be making a few visits to colleges this summer. She's over at Lara's right now and will spend the night there. Christopher and I have been playing tennis on most Saturday and Sunday mornings. Christopher is very good about taking a lesson or two a week. He cracked his tennis racket two weeks ago and I have been playing with a 'jr.' racket (small hand grip for my short fingers). We both bought new rackets last week -- Saved lots of money by being perfectly happy with last year's models. I seem to be suffering from Tennis Elbow. So I pop a few ibuprofin before bed, then take a few as soon as I get up. It's not entirely successful in diminishing the pain, but somewhat. We're disappointed we never managed to convince either of the girls to write on the javalogue. Both of them have those other sites that Christopher and I have to monitor. It's likely this is the last posting until early August. Selamat jalan, the Javaharts |