Jakarta

In the history of my spontinaity my trip to Jakarta definately ranks high up there. Last Thursday I decided life here was getting a little to mundane - I hadn't gone on a trip in a couple of weeks and both Sophie and I needed a mood boost - so during my last class of the week I decided it was time to take the plunge and go to Jakarta.

We finished class, ate lunch and went directly  to book flights before we could backout. At lunch time the next day we were at Yogya airport and after a flight and a couple of hours in a taxi. We were checked in at our hotel in Jakarta ready to go shopping for going out clothes. We had a couple of hours to eat and find clothes for the night before meeting Joel and his friends to go out for the night.

All I can say was the night was hectic and we arrived home at 6am.

Waking up at 11 we decided to make the cultural journey of the trip so we headed to Monas. Unfortunately, it was HOT and along with the hangovers we weren't in a particularly good state. So we arrived took a couple of photos and left to go shopping (i'm actually emabarassed to say we didn't even manage to climb Monas). So, we ate, shopped and went home and slept for an hour before meeting up with Dimas' sister and aunt for a couple more hours of shopping. After  that we changed and went to Kemang where we met a friend of Sophies and then caught up with Joel and Bobby. Because we were stilll by exhausted we went home relatively early and were in bed by 2am.

Sunday was the day for kebaya shopping with Dimas' sister Putri who had her graduation coming up. We tried on kebayas and eventually settled on some cool material to make kebayas which we shall be wearing to Dimas', Putri's and Ina's graduation this weekend.

On Monday we did some last minute shopping, ate lunch, auditioned for an Indonesian TV show and then rushed to the airport for our flight home.

The whole trip was crazy but just what we needed to revive. Now i need a week to relax - my next week in Sumatra should help with that

Semogas Sukses