What fun we've had, sharing our new adventure with Joey. He's been with us during the last part of our hotel stay, during all of our temporary housing stay, and now for our first days in our real house. The place is echoing quite a bit as it's missing most of the furniture. Due to a communication mix-up or, more likely, due to the lack of competence with the housing preparers, we moved into the house before the curtains and furniture were returned from being cleaned. But, we have beds, some bedding (that we bought), internet, TV, 6 dining chairs, 4 dinner knives, and a broken vacuum -- now that's livin'!! We were able to get out yesterday and buy a bunch of basics so we're seeing progress! And really, just having internet access has been such a blessing in the last 24 hours that we're feeling like we're living "high on the hog!" (Does anyone know the etymology of that phrase?)We have a new maid who's name is Lusy! (The Indonesian spelling of Lucy, which was the name of our Port Harcourt maid -- a dear gal!) This Lusy speaks enough English that we're getting by alright. She's done an amazing amount of cleaning, today. And she took a taxi to some shops to buy another mop, bucket, cleaning goop for the tiles, and an adapter -- the total, including the cost of the taxi, was $9!!!
'hope these photos help you get a feel for life in this region. I'll wait to post house photos until our shipment arrives from Nigeria -- which could be awhile! But I'll probably post some beach scenes from the pool area of the compound. Last night we sat out by the beach to watch the sunset -- lovely!
Joey returns to Sydney on Wednesday but the fun's not over yet -- he just booked us into a Spa for tomorrow evening. 2+ hours of massage for something like $14! We've already tried it once -- there's no Indonesian word equivalent to fabulous or wonderful (superlatives are rare in this language) so all we could say was "bagus!" ="good"
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