sondre has been hanging with the fishies...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Sunday, July 8, 2007
summer love
after finally receiving an update on my parents extremely busy lives, i realized that i had forgotten that it is summer for all of you too - - - which means that we're all on holiday! happy summer!
we just spent the day biking around the rice paddies of ubud, an inland town in bali. afterwards we sat on the egde of the local soccer field and watched the bali finals. only a couple fights broke out - nothing too serious.
we're a bit unsure what to do with our last few weeks - there are so many islands (17,500 of them!), so little time!
here's a few images to whet your interest . . .
the carving below we saw at the famous borobudur temple on java, just outside of yogyakarta. the temple is from the year 800. it's the oldest structure i've climbed on.
here's a close up of shadow puppets - sondre and i saw a performance in yogyakarta. one man controls all the puppets, backed by a gamelan orchestra.
gamelan is traditional indonesian music, but it is still alive and well and you hear it everywhere. it's my new favorite sound.
this website has some gamelan music for your ipod: http://www.gamelan.org
and this one lets you play: http://www.monkeyc.org/play.html
okay . . . enough schooling for one day. bye for now!
we just spent the day biking around the rice paddies of ubud, an inland town in bali. afterwards we sat on the egde of the local soccer field and watched the bali finals. only a couple fights broke out - nothing too serious.
we're a bit unsure what to do with our last few weeks - there are so many islands (17,500 of them!), so little time!
here's a few images to whet your interest . . .
the carving below we saw at the famous borobudur temple on java, just outside of yogyakarta. the temple is from the year 800. it's the oldest structure i've climbed on.
here's a close up of shadow puppets - sondre and i saw a performance in yogyakarta. one man controls all the puppets, backed by a gamelan orchestra.
gamelan is traditional indonesian music, but it is still alive and well and you hear it everywhere. it's my new favorite sound.
this website has some gamelan music for your ipod: http://www.gamelan.org
and this one lets you play: http://www.monkeyc.org/play.html
okay . . . enough schooling for one day. bye for now!
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Jakarta
Since last time we've been waiting in airports and gone to another wedding.
From Cambodia we had booked a flight to Kuala Lumpur with a connecting flight to Jakarta. The first of the two was over 4 hours late, so we had to wait until the next morning to get to Jakarta. The good thing was that we got to see Kuala Lumpur, which was great, but it came at the cost of getting city-tired and airport-grumpy.
But then we got here! Hana and Jake, whose wedding we went to in New Zealand, had a second wedding party here in Indonesia, because Hana's mother is Indonesian. It's been wonderful to hang out with friends again. We are staying at Hana's parents house, which was the scene of the big traditional wedding party yesterday. The costumes and decorations were beyond this world! Actually, they looked a bit Star Wars... Hope to post some pictures soon.
Tomorrow we are taking a train to Yogyakarta, and then we're going to Bali.
By the way, this is a commual Flicker account where people have been posting their pictures from H&J's wedding in Piha. Lots of fun for the whole family!
From Cambodia we had booked a flight to Kuala Lumpur with a connecting flight to Jakarta. The first of the two was over 4 hours late, so we had to wait until the next morning to get to Jakarta. The good thing was that we got to see Kuala Lumpur, which was great, but it came at the cost of getting city-tired and airport-grumpy.
But then we got here! Hana and Jake, whose wedding we went to in New Zealand, had a second wedding party here in Indonesia, because Hana's mother is Indonesian. It's been wonderful to hang out with friends again. We are staying at Hana's parents house, which was the scene of the big traditional wedding party yesterday. The costumes and decorations were beyond this world! Actually, they looked a bit Star Wars... Hope to post some pictures soon.
Tomorrow we are taking a train to Yogyakarta, and then we're going to Bali.
By the way, this is a commual Flicker account where people have been posting their pictures from H&J's wedding in Piha. Lots of fun for the whole family!
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