As we walk our lives day by day, it's so easy to get into a routine and feel stale. In Canada, life was good and we were easily trapped into comfort and being complacent, while in Indonesia it's always about making more money and working more. Neither of them is good, I think, because wherever we are, we need to break from the routines once in a while and do a variety of things that makes us sit back and think about what really matters in life.
We've been in Jakarta for over 5 months now, and what we've done so far are work, go to the mall, go online, work again, to the mall again, and online again. What the heck were we thinking?! We are in the tropics! No snow to complain about, the heat is manageable, we're just not creative enough!
Well, on Good Friday we dressed up to go out, thinking about just another mall. Then suddenly Miss Kiki talked on her 'cellphone' and planned an outing with Pocoyo, Ellie, and Patou. Then she said "Mama, I'm meeting Pocoyo, Patou and Ellie on the Beach. I'm going to the beach!"
The beach! Indonesian area is actually about 60 water. And why haven't we gone to see the beach at all? Well, okay, it's hot, it's raining, it's dirty, it's stinky, and a thousand more excuses. But come on! Less than a half hour drive you're already there. With all the pollution, it's not much of a beach but it's still water and something DIFFERENT. I'm so glad that we went, it's like getting a new breath of air. We went on a boat, we had seafood by the water, we went on a swan boat-cycle, and we got a little walking exercise.
I say we should do this more often.
Hooray for Kiki!
Hooray for Pocoyo!
We've been in Jakarta for over 5 months now, and what we've done so far are work, go to the mall, go online, work again, to the mall again, and online again. What the heck were we thinking?! We are in the tropics! No snow to complain about, the heat is manageable, we're just not creative enough!
The beach! Indonesian area is actually about 60 water. And why haven't we gone to see the beach at all? Well, okay, it's hot, it's raining, it's dirty, it's stinky, and a thousand more excuses. But come on! Less than a half hour drive you're already there. With all the pollution, it's not much of a beach but it's still water and something DIFFERENT. I'm so glad that we went, it's like getting a new breath of air. We went on a boat, we had seafood by the water, we went on a swan boat-cycle, and we got a little walking exercise.
I say we should do this more often.
Hooray for Kiki!
Hooray for Pocoyo!
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