May 25, 2011

What Can't you carry on a motorcycle?

We're always seeing goofy things around town, in particular people on motorcycles and the various items they can carry on them: goats, families of six, gas bottles, etc. We never seem to have a camera handy when we need one.  But here are a few we shots we got recently:


Need your tv delivered?  No problem!


Rear-facing child seat.


Crackers anyone?

Driving is never a dull experience here!


May 02, 2011

Easter

Easter morning found us scrambling, as usual, to get ready for church.

"Flowers!" I remembered.  "We need flowers!"

Our Indonesian church has an Easter tradition that I absolutely love called "flowering the cross".  Everyone is asked to bring flowers that are then attached to a large styrofoam cross.



I loved sitting in church, surrounded by people clutching flowers freshly cut from their gardens - orchids, bougainvillea, and that's where my knowledge of local flower names ends.  Living here where it's perpetually summer, I often forget what season it is in the U.S.  All the flowers reminded me that it is spring.

Attaching our flowers


The "flowered" cross - a beautiful symbol of hope for Easter morning!


 Zoe and Grace with "Oma" - a sweet grandma from our church.


Grace's birthday was a few days before Easter, and she had a party with some of her MAF friends.  We made some Easter crafts...

...and Grace ate a stack of 11 pancakes - one for each of her years of life!