Whirlwind In A Mama's Head

For the third day I booked us for a short Lava Tour, a trip to the Merapi Volcano. Miss Kiki has been fascinated with volcanoes and volcano facts from her book, so I thought it would be appropriate to take her to a volcano and see one for real. I booked the Lava tour with Mentari Adventure owned by Pak Eko. He can be reached via text, phone, or WhatsApp at +6281229915857  I arranged pick-up and drop-off with the same company to get to the volcano from our hotel. His prices are very reasonable. On the day of our tour, all of his cars and drivers are out so we were lucky to be picked up by Pak Eko himself in a brand spanking new Toyota Avanza. He was on time, polite, clean, and (I know it is important for some of us) smelled pleasant. Hahahhaa..... You wouldn't want to sit in a car for a long trip with a smelly driver, would you. When we arrived at the Merapi Museum, our Jeep was all ready to go. We hopped on and off we went. Oh what fun it was to ride in a Jeep up...

Monggo Cholocate Factory For the second day, I had booked a silver workshop for the three of us. I wasn't sure how Miss Kiki would fare, but she did really well! The class was booked for 1 pm and we had some spare time after breakfast. My original plan was to go to Monggo Chocolate store and cafe that I thought was nearby while waiting, but it turned out that the cafe was NOT near the studio. The factory was, however, so that's where we went. It was a tiny little place with neat decorations. We were able to see some of the process in the clean room through a glass window. The funny thing was, it was a clean room with a 'handover' box for transferring the products for packaging, but some of the workers did not wear their masks properly. Their noses were still uncovered. They had some chocolate for sale there at "outlet" price. We were done fairly quickly at the factory that we still had plenty of time before our...