A Long Weekend in Jakarta

One final trip for this school year. We had a holiday a couple weeks ago which allowed us to have two days off of school and a nice long weekend to travel. This time Molly and Emma helped plan a fun adventure to Jakarta. We stayed at a nice hotel in the center of all the fun shopping and good food. We ate at a really good Lebanese restaurant the first night. Then the next day we went to Sea World Indonesia and an amusement park called DuFan. Sea World was such a disappointment. It only had a few tanks of fish, no shows, no shamu, nothing. And the amusement park too was not at all what I expected. It was more of a carnival with a few real rides. One of the weirdest was a wanna be "Small World" like at Disneyland. We ended that day by going to the coolest movie theater ever. This movie theater has reclining chairs with a blanket and they deliver your food right to your seat. Then the next day we spent time shopping and eating and finally headed back to Bandung on the train. We spent the whole train ride playing the game Taboo and annoying all of the people around us, I'm sure. It was fun to get out of town and relax for a couple of days before heading into the final few weeks of school. Life has been busier than ever and everyone seems to be running on empty, with just enough steam to finish out the school year and make it to summer vacation.

Here are a few pictures from our fun weekend in Jakarta:

At the Lebanese restaurant.

A tank full of piranhas! That's a lot of fish.

On our way to the amusement park we ran into some monkeys hanging out on the side of the road. We got pretty close.

Me and my roommate Emma

The wanna be "Small World" ride. Do you see the resemblance?

So ghetto! :)

The movie theater and comfy chairs. We enjoyed watching "Iron Man."

For all of the pictures, click on the following link and it will take you to the Web Album:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/clauson.emily/LongWeekendInJakarta