Sleeping was no issue last night an before we knew it, 7:00AM!!! Hopefully we are caught up and our internal clock has started to adjust. We both had empty tummies so it was soon down to the breakfast buffet . . .

. . . omelets to order and even a little Thai Fish to go along with it all . . .

. . . what’s a meal with out a little dessert, even breakfast. These little mini 2” donuts were just waiting to be sampled.

emJay had a meeting with the Rizal, the Nature Conservancy country director for Indonesia. The building TNC is headquartered in is literally wrapped by our hotel. An easy 15 second walk to work today for emJay!

TNC’s office  building, they are on the third floor, as seen from our pool. Close by!

We decided to do a little Christmas shopping in the afternoon and this time chose the higher end department store located on Block M. Lot’s of staff and very few customers so we had lots of attention. Again, like the crazy market we were in yesterday it’s a six story building with a large atrium.

Everything in  Indonesia is ‘on the left side’. The steering wheel and driver of vehicles are on the opposite side of our cars and the road direction runs the opposite too. I forgot that as I crossed the busy road outside our hotel, looking to the left to make sure it was clear, when all the traffic was coming from the right instead. Lucky I didn’t get creamed. Even the escalators are opposite ours!

One happy shopper . . .

. . . I found a little bauble too, at the ACE hardware store. Just a little over 12,000,000RP or about $1,800USD. Wouldn’t fit  in my suitcase!

Since we like food, we always like to stroll through the supermarkets to see what they have to offer. At this one the liquor was right out front. The Tanquery was about $51USD and the Henrick’s was close to $100USD!  They didn’t have a bottle of wine for less than $27USD . . .

. . . but if you were a beer drinker, you could get Bud for about $4.00USD a can.

Cheese was expensive with the chunk of cheddar going for about $70.00USD. The gruyere to the right was over $200. Sort of brings a whole new meaning to a simple cheese and cracker appetizer!

The meats were all pre-packaged and vacuumed sealed. Not sure where they came from . . .

. . . but there was no doubt where these  babies came from, Sheboygan, WI They had there own chest freezer, but no price listed. I  guess if you have to ask . . . maybe in Indonesia you can’t afford them!

And something for our four legged friends too!

By the time we were done shopping it was rush hour and fun to watch all the activity as we headed back to the hotel with all of our goodies. Lots of bus traffic in Jakarta and here was one of the major bus loading areas. The buses entered the tube like passages from the  left, and once loaded, exited to the right. Lots of exhaust from everything that moves. The 90 degree temps didn’t help either.

Fun to watch this major intersection where when the light turned red, all the motorcycles from at least a block back scooted up through traffic to the front. When the light turned green  . . . it was like the start of the Indy 500!