AHHHHH.....Love a refreshing alcoholic beverage to start your evening off right, OK before we kick this pig off, I wanted to say something about the Olympics. I have never, NEVER!! been more proud to be a Canadian, and especially a Vancouverite than during the Olympics. I cried when Canadians won or lost ( OK I know I cry at the commercials too, but this is different...really) I have never watched more curling in my life ...and probably never will. Watched the best hockey game EVER, especially since we won, cried then too. I think Vancouver did a wonderful job putting on the Olympics, even with a few minor glitches, and made us all proud canadians....and made everybody around the world think we travel by sea plane ALL THE TIME!!!I didn't really understand the fascination.
Well I think ( huh didn't use anyways!) we're mostly ready to go , speaking for myself, all I have to do essentially is pack...which might be a challenge. We're going to try and not take everything we "might" need... you know like splints for broken bones or pills for some weird disease we have really no chance of contracting. Speaking of disease, we went to the health district, to get our shots updated and get a prescription for malaria ( which by the way was close to a zillion dollars...no really a zillion with a "z") I love the travel nurse there, a wonderful woman, she's been there for all the 10 years since I started to travel every year. Her job , other than the shots and stuff, I think , is ... to scare the crap out of you so that all you'll do is stay in your room and take pictures from your balcony. Don't get me wrong she does it very nicely...and well I guess it's her job, but seriously if you did what she said all you would do is stay in your room and eat pringles...not really the point of travel as far I'm concerned.
I'm at that sort of excited, scared of the unknown, knowing you're forgetting something and trying not to worry about it, don't be an idiot, of course there will be toothpaste there to buy stage. (although I understand, only through the guide book that personal waste removal will be a challenge...ok I know toilet paper is cutting down trees, but I like toilet paper ,especially Charmin and I really wish the rest of the world would get on board with the whole TP thing.)So as a diver it's been a back and forth thing about what to take, all that crap weighs alot and takes up alot of space, on the other hand do you want entrust your life to some rental stuff that somebody just barfed into yesterday.Also this whole charging for the second bag thing...well... blows, which means I'm probably going to be one of those annoying people with the humongous carry on bag that takes up half of the over head bin, but I save a bunch of money, especially cause I think we're going to do a fair amount of airline travel in Indonesia.
We really haven't planned anything as far as what we doing in Indonesia, other than we want to go to Bali , Sulawesi ( for the butterflies ) and Borneo ( for the diving and Orangutans ) Apparently Jakarta is a little flooded right now..so we probably won't stay too long there.There is a train that travels the length of Java, so that might be an option for us...love trains and it would allow us to stop in Yogiyakarta ..ok spell check hates me, anyways (ah hah ) supposed to be beautiful Yogi whatever you call it. Well that's all I got for now, we're off to dinner.
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