We are in Jakarta for one night with our team on our way home and we decide to go to a shopping mall nearby since we saw that they had…yes a WENDY’S!!! Remember that we have had beef only one time in the past two months so a Wendy’s burger sounds REALLY good! At the mall there was a little baby shop with clothes and toys. How cute! We stopped to look and as we were something caught Ben’s eye…a little pocket knife. For awhile now Ben has wanted to get a pocket knife so that whenever he needed to cut something etc. he could do it easily. We thought it was a little wierd to have in a baby store, but we still asked to see it none the less. Little did we know it was about to get even more strange. As the store clerk pulled out the knife he showed us how if you press this little button on the side the blade flips out real fast. Yes, this was no pocket knife, it was a switch blade. Totally illegal. So we politely decline at this little toy shop to buy a illegal weapon. But we still persist on. Do they have a knife that does not flip out with the switch of a button? the store keeper assures us he does and then pulls out another knife. This one flips out very easily he says, and then proceeds to show us a butterfly knife. Another illegal weapon at the baby store. At this point we decided to leave :) Indonesia sure is an interesting place!
On a separate note we have been having an absolutely great time with our family here in Bali. Uncle Barry and Auntie Geri have been SOOOO wonderfully hospitable! We have loved every minute of spending time with them and our cousins Sheena and Quin. We’ve been swimming, eaten lots of wonderful meals, played cards, gone to their church, talked about: life, parenting, teaching, culture and so many other things. We leave in two days and we are very sad to say good bye!
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