A trip to the Indonesian embassy...

Yesterday Hugo and I took the train to Den Haag to get our visa's from the Indonesian embassy. Normally, you hop in the train in Enschede and you stay on that same train for 2.5 hours until you reach Den Haag. However, there was an electrical issue at one of the stations along the way and we ended up changing trains twice and arriving 3 hours after departure. We decided to keep our jingle in our jeans and walk to the embassy... It's a bit of a hike but the weather was beautiful and Den Haag is a beautiful old city. The office of the Indonesian embassy is in a rather old, ugly "white" building. Upon entry you feel as though you have actually entered the country itself. The first thing you see is a mushola (prayer room). The waiting area for visa's is a small boxy room with a large ornate couch and some not so ornate wooden seats. There was no line-up so we could obtain our visa's immediately from the friendly lady behind the counter. Then we went to use the washrooms... this only confirmed our feeling that we were no longer in Holland, but in another country...
It was a nice day out for us, Mom and Dad took care of the kids as we didn't think they would enjoy spending 5 hours in a train... They went to a large outdoor playground instead. More their kind of fun!
As it stands now, we are due to leave Holland for Heathrow early Tuesday morning meaning we need to get up at about 2:00 am to make it to the airport on time... Then we have a 5 hour layover in Heathrow before heading to HongKong where we will have a 26 hour layover before heading to Jakarta where we will most likely spend the night as there are some things we need to get in Jakarta. Sounds like fun eh? Teleporting sounds like a whole lot more fun to me!