Last Week in the Mission

The last hurrah! It was a very busy week with trips to Bogor to help with the new missionary apartment, finishing the training Power Point for new missionaries, cooking for large groups, and trying to get our banking and packing finished. Whew!
We also managed to work in a day at Taman Mini, a large park in Jakarta. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing different styles of homes and different wedding clothing from all over Indonesia. The Indonesian Museum was first class. We loved the huge bird aviary and the IMAX theater.

 The Gong Factory is in Bogor and we visited
there to buy our very own Indonesian Gong!
Top picture is the fire they heat the brass,
middle picture is where 2 men take turns hitting the metal to shape it, while the first man rotates
it. Ari, the office employee and driver is in the
background looking on. The man below is shaving the metal smooth on a gamelan (a smaller kind of gong).

Elder and Sister Lisk, from Eugene, OR, went with us to
Tamen Mini--riding the cable car.

  

This is a beautiful wall-size tile map of Indonesia, with people
in all the different dress of the islands.

Every culture seems to have a "tree of life" and Indonesia has
theirs, with fire-breathing dragons, no less!

Inside Museum of Indonesia

Bali architecture

Sumatera homes

We saw lots of these style homes around Manado.

These designed homes are from Sulawesi--could be fun living in one, don't you think?

My favorite bird at the aviary--thoroughly
disgusted with all the interruptions to his sleep.

The island in center of the lake is part of the "map" of Indonesia, best viewed from the cable cars.