We survived!!

We have survived our very first authentic Idul Fitri. (It's not nearly such a big deal in Papua) The drums and praying went on for quite a while, but unlike some of the other MAF'ers, we were able to sleep through it. Except this morning our little neighbour boy decided to blow his horn, something like we Canadians might blow at a hockey game, at 6am... Nice... Thankfully the kids slept through it, but the parents unfortunately didn't...
After spending quite a lot of time folding and ironing the clothes I washed yesterday, I draw the line at ironing underwear, unlike our helpers, I will not do that, we had lunch and went with some Indonesian friends to the mall - Istana Plaza. One of them needed to drop off her broken cell phone so we took the opportunity to show the kids the indoor skating rink. After that we went to their house for supper. Wow! What a place. It's actually his parents house of course. It is really quite large.... The kids didn't know what to do with so much room to run around both inside and out. Unfortunately the projection player on their home theater system didn't work so the kids had to watch their video on a 52 inch flat screen tv... bummer... We had a nice meal of nasi goreng with them and then they brought us home. Tomorrow we plan to go out with them again to the Bandung Super Mall (also fondly known as Bandung Super Mahal (mahal means expensive in Indonesian)). At the mall there is an ice sculpture display that we plan to go see.
It's a quiet night and we hope that there's no blowing of horns at 6:00 in the morning, but it's Indonesia so one never knows for sure...