Over the past five days we have had Ben's sister Lucy visiting us. With a rocky start to her visit due to her bags getting lost Lucy's stay only got better as the the bag finally arrived.
We wanted to show Lucy around as much as possible with the traffic permitting so we took her to a number of different locations to show her the different types of shopping experiences to be had in Jakarta.
From Town Square, Poins Square, Pasar Raya Mall, Pondok Indha Mall and Mangga Dua shopping Malls she could experience all levels of shopping.
Having enjoyed our trip to Sunda Kelapa in the past we headed down there to see the long boats and to see an older part to Jakarta. Both Paige and Lucy were impressed with the boats. We even had the same tour guild Ben and I had last time.
It is interesting to see Jakarta through someone elses eyes, Lucy's impressions of Jakarta is very similar to how most people see it. "When you first arrive it can be an over load on your senses from large amounts of traffic, so many people, the smells, the lack of infrastructure and to see the lack of pride in their heritage due to funding put into the museums".
We all had a wonderful time during Lucy's visit. Paige loved having her Aunt Lucy around it was a wonderful time.
Lucy, Ben & Bernadette out to lunch at local cafe 
Man cooking chicken sates 
Lady making "gado gado" 
Gado Gado 
Lucy, Paige & Ben next to one of the boats 
Ben & Lucy on one of the boats 
Paige on one of the boats 
Cafe Batavia we had morning tea 
Paige with Auntie Lucy 
Paige & Ben 
Two school boys in the main square 
Super stars Ben & Lucy asked for photographs 
Ben & Lucy have their photo taken by the locals 
Shopping at Mangga Dua 
Paige had a busy day 
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