Jogja

Today, we got to relax, and it's starting to feel like a vacation rather then a rat race!

We are staying in a very nice Hotel ($15 per night with AC) and thoroughly enjoying it!
The place has free breakfast (papaya, a crepe like pancake with chocolate sprinkles and a coffee with lots and lots of sugar added to it)

Then we did some laundry (purchased scrub brush and detergent at the local mall grocery store basement ** it seems that every asian mall we've been to so far has an upscale grocery store/food market in the basement! It's awesome!**)

They let us hang our laundry on the rooftop garden after we unsucessfully tried drying them in our room...
It's kind of silly, but the little things like doing dishes and laundry and putting things away....those are the things I miss the most right now...feeling homey. 

When Indonesian children see us, they are instructed by their mothers to say "Hello Mister." and I'm beginning to notice, most of the attention and comments go to Rodolfo as the "man"...not sure why really!

Every day around sunrise, noon and sunset, their is a loud crying throughout the streets....like really long moaning/singing...there is nothing like hearing the sound of hundreds of voices chanting while the sun goes down.   Incredible! 

Odd moments of the day:
a crazy looking carrier pigeon named gigolo, eating noodles in a restaurant covered in calendars, watching Rodolfo argue prices with street venders, and having 6 different men come up and start a conversation randomly. 

OH!  I ate snake fruit! 
Off to find some chicken sate!

We will stay in Java for a week and then we've decided to head to Bali instead of Sumatra.  It wasn't in the plans, but as they say here a lot: "don't worry, be happy!"