An Indonesian in Mississippi. Not as catchy as "An Englishman in New York"
Appetite for Jackson
We made it to Appetite for Jackson after all, and I’m glad we did. Fun event that can be completely free if one so chooses, good food and music, a celebrity appearance, and a warm (by winter standards), beautiful day–what’s not to like?
Sofia and Penelope all made up
Here’s a quick one for the family: Sofia and Penelope in their Halloween outfits.
Thanks for the bib, Susie
Haircut
Hoping it wouldn’t dull her Samson-esque physical strength, we took Sofia to get her first haircut. Christe’, our family hair specialist and likely the greatest in all of the Jackson Metro area, did the honors.
Standing
Sitting up, crawling, standing, and scooting–am I crazy or did she learn to do all of this within the span of about a month? It’s a whole new world now.
Key card
Actual dates: October 21-24, 2008
We left Surabaya and headed to Yogyakarta to visit Borobudur Temple, Kraton Yogyakarta (palace), and the Malioboro street market. While we were there we stayed at the Grand Mercure Yogyakarta, which since then has apparently been rebranded as the Phoenix Hotel. I like Grand Mercure better myself–sounds more, well, grand, which really is an apt adjective for this fine hotel.
Happy family
Actual date: October 19, 2008
Rewind is back! More specifically Indonesia Trip 2008 is back!
Happy Labor Day 2010, everybody. Denise has been nudging me to resume posting about our trip in 2008, so here I am doing some of that while enjoying Labor Day. I’ve decided to start putting the “Actual date” info in red so as to minimize confusion for future posts about the trip. Hopefully when you see the line of red text you’ll immediately know it’s a Rewind post, especially since I’ve also got some stuff from earlier this year that I’m behind on that will be making its way here soon. Rewind-splosion. No, we didn’t go to Indonesia again. Yes, this stuff is from 2 years ago. But it’s still way cool and I’m not gonna let good blogging material go to waste. Again, when reading this blog just ignore the accepted rules of time and space and go with the flow. Time travel is a common occurrence in the Pamudji-verse.
Penelope's eyes
♫ “She has her eyes, she has my Lily’s hazel eyes…” ♫ Oh… ehem. Sorry, got nostalgic for my college days for a sec there.
I’d been trying to get a good shot of this since Penelope was born, but she’d never stay still long enough or keep her eyes open enough to do so. She has these beautiful grayish-brown/brownish-gray colored eyes. Asians with eye color anything but black (very dark brown, but might as well be black) are rare, so this is an exotic look. Thank you, Denise.
Seafood gumbo
I had the privilege of being guests to members of the Pass Christian Yacht Club, which is why we were able to eat at their restaurant. They don’t normally let in riff-raff like me. Upon browsing the menu I was surprised to see how reasonable the food prices were. I guess they get you with the membership dues so they can afford to not charge crazy money for food.
A few of us got the seafood gumbo appetizer. The photo might look like a muddy mess, but if you know what you’re looking at you know there’s probably some good stuff in there, and there was–nice lumps of crab, shrimp, etc. Quite good gumbo. I’ve had better, but this one got no complaints from me.
Oil clean-up site
Yes, I’m back!!! Boy, who knew having 2 kids would be so much work, especially with a colicky baby? Not me. I have some down time and figure what better way to return to the blog then to celebrate the end of the oil gush (ok, probably a bit premature, but let’s hope it’s true) with a blog post about oil? In a few years we’ll look back at these oil-filled days and reminisce fondly. Ah, the good old days when oil = bad, and environmentalism = good. Such simple, innocent times. “Ah, the Summer of 2010,” we’ll utter with a nostalgic sigh. » Continue Reading…