Barker's Babies: January 2012

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Saturday

We finally had a Saturday where there was nothing on the agenda other than Joseph’s t-ball game in the morning. Mommy must admit it was really nice to just stay home and not do a whole lot.

The kids just played at the apartment for most of the day. Audrey had wanted to go swimming, but sadly, the complex pool is very green. Funny thing was Mommy looked at it yesterday morning, and it was blue. The pool certainly did not look very appealing in its current green state. Hopefully the pool will be back to its lovely blue color sometime in the near future. The kids love going swimming.

Joseph decided later on that he wanted to go play tennis, and the girls wanted to ride bikes. After playing tennis for a little while with Daddy, the kids decided they wanted to go to the playground. We stayed at the playground until dusk and then headed back to the apartment.

Here are some fun pics from today.

Joseph looking a little hot after playing tennis with Daddy.

Sweet little Nunu rested on the bench while waiting for Joseph and Daddy to finish up so we could go to the playground.

Cute little Audrey peeking out of the tunnel window.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Gone Fishin’

Mommy and Daddy considered taking the kids to Carita Beach this last friday. We thought it would be fun to play on the beach and also get a view of Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatau, a famous active volcano in Indonesia). It would have been a 4 hour drive to the beach (without traffic) so Mommy thought that it was not a good idea for a day trip. We might consider doing a weekend trip to Carita Beach at some time in 2012!

Mommy found a place called Kebun Wisata Pasirmukti that seemed like a good place for a day trip. It was about an hour’s drive from Jakarta. The place is an agrofarm and has facilities for a variety of activities including fishing. Daddy loves to fish and the kids had not been fishing in a long time.

We left about 9 am friday morning and arrived around 10:30am. We paid the entrance fee and made our way around the farm/orchard til we got to the fishing ponds. There were two fishing ponds stocked with different fish. Daddy paid for 4 fishing rod rentals which included bait.

We originally tried fishing for gurame (a good-tasting fish) but were unsuccessful. The fish did not seem to care for the bait we were using. Daddy noticed that there was a lot of action at the second pond so we went over to try our luck at the other pond. All the kids were able to reel in fish. We caught a lot of fish over the few hours that we were at the pond. We paid about US $8 to keep our lot of fish. We threw back the smaller fish and kept the 7 largest fish.

We had lunch at the local restaurant and then headed for home. We even made it home in 1.5 hrs. which was a miracle since it was a friday in Jakarta and raining too! Daddy conceded that it was a good idea not to go to the beach as we all had a fantasic time fishing!

It was a great day! We even saw a water buffalo at the farm which was funny since Daddy had just said the night before that he was surprised he had not seen any water buffalo in the 10 months we lived in Indonesia.

Traffic jam even outside of Jakarta…we found ourselves in a sea of blue vans.

No luck catching any gurame fish.

Our little fisherman…the girls lost interest in fishing after awhile and were happier mashing up fish bait and tossing them into the water to feed the fish.