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Baby you can drive my car
Mommy and Me
A little down time with a good book!
Cai is finished, but Tri continues to gulp it down!
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July
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- 6 Hands are Better than 4
- Scabies Part 3
- Meeting with TDH
- Moving Day!
- Staying Longer in Vietnam
- Happy Belated Birthday, Mommy
- Happy Birthday, Mommy!
- Holmes' Homeless in Ho Chi Minh!!!
- Freaky Friday
- What are they thinking?
- Cai Wins the Battle!
- Which Crib to Choose?
- To Swing or Not to Swing - There is NO QUESTION!
- TWO CHILDREN - A HAIR RAISING EXPERIENCE!
- A BALD family is a HAPPY family
- Cai's New Room
- Shopping for ........ the orphanage?
- Excuse me, is this bed taken?
- 6 More Days Turns to 5
- Who Knew a 3 Month Old Girl Could Make a Grown Man...
- Merci Tous Mes Professeurs Francais!
- Virginia's reaction to Cai's adoption proposal
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How Old We Are
Tri in carriage
Baby you can drive my car
Lunch at Juice
Mommy and Me
Reading is smart
A little down time with a good book!
Got Milk?
Cai is finished, but Tri continues to gulp it down!
Life in Jakarta
It is really hard to imagine what Jakarta is like, unless you visit....and we hope our friends and family do just that.
What can I say? Jakarta is busy, overpopulated, polluted and the traffic is a nightmare. Really. Unbelievable traffic.
But there is another side to it: the people in Jakarta are warm and wonderful. All you have to do is go for a walk in one of the kampungs (local, poor neighbourhoods) to see the baik-hati spirit of the Indonesian people. They have very little, but if you needed it, they'd give you half.
And to be a bule (pronounced boolay)! A bule is a white person. Although there are many of us here in the capital, Indonesians are still curious. You cannot avoid the inevitable probing questions. "Where are you going?" "Where are you from?" "How old are you?" "Are you married?" "Do you have children?"
They are not being rude - quite the opposite. They want to KNOW you and they love it when you get to know them, too.
Very different from the New York or Toronto subway experience, where merely glancing at a fellow traveller must surely mean you need to be committed!
And so, we put up with the smells and the traffic...give a little to get so much more in return.
But don't get me wrong....we take every chance we can to get away and go to the coast. Sailing, biking, relaxing on our very private white beach is better than traffic, any day! We stay at our house which we now rent out. Check it out at www.tlrentals.com
What can I say? Jakarta is busy, overpopulated, polluted and the traffic is a nightmare. Really. Unbelievable traffic.
But there is another side to it: the people in Jakarta are warm and wonderful. All you have to do is go for a walk in one of the kampungs (local, poor neighbourhoods) to see the baik-hati spirit of the Indonesian people. They have very little, but if you needed it, they'd give you half.
And to be a bule (pronounced boolay)! A bule is a white person. Although there are many of us here in the capital, Indonesians are still curious. You cannot avoid the inevitable probing questions. "Where are you going?" "Where are you from?" "How old are you?" "Are you married?" "Do you have children?"
They are not being rude - quite the opposite. They want to KNOW you and they love it when you get to know them, too.
Very different from the New York or Toronto subway experience, where merely glancing at a fellow traveller must surely mean you need to be committed!
And so, we put up with the smells and the traffic...give a little to get so much more in return.
But don't get me wrong....we take every chance we can to get away and go to the coast. Sailing, biking, relaxing on our very private white beach is better than traffic, any day! We stay at our house which we now rent out. Check it out at www.tlrentals.com
WoW. Tri's birthday card reminds me of Being at Chuckie Cheese for a Birthday party. Maybe next year Tri and Cai can take you there to celebrate. Is there some reason that Tri didn't go card shopping with Cai - does she have her own card?
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