Ella's Birthday

Ella turned 3 this year and was spoiled as usual. She loves princesses so we got her a Pocahontas doll.
She also got buckaroo. That is my cousin Brian in the green and our friend Neil in the black. It was pretty much a adult birthday party since her best buddy Lucas is back in Holland right now.
This is the cake she chose it was blueberry cheese cake and it was yummy!!!
Blowing out the candles. with her new Belle baby doll.
And of course enjoying her cake. Yummy!!!

Teman Safari III

We think that this guy missed his true calling as a professional catchers mitt!!
Everywhere we go in Indonesia there is someone who wants thier babies picture taken with Ella. I think that she is starting to get really sick of it!! They always say, in thier broken English, Say hi to your brother or sister.
This is a baby leopard that you can pose with Ella actually thought it was cute and let us get this close before saying Shoo!!
This is in front of the baby lion pen.

When you finish driving through the park you come to this part. You can ride the elephants or camels or take in a dolphin or seal show. It is a really cool place and if you ever come to Jakarta it is a must see!! We had a blast!

Teman Safari Continued

This is a bus that you can ride through the park. Ella thought is was really cool!! We, again, have no idea what this guy is but we are pretty sure that George Lucas got his idea for Jar Jar Binks from him.
Whial driving through the meat eater paddocks we saw alot of beautiful large cats. This lion was only about 15 feet from us.
Hippos were everywhere in the park, apparently they thrive in Indonesial climate.
You can acctually see the shadow of our car in this picture. We were only about 4 feet from this guy!

Teman Safari

Ok so on the drive to Teman Safari you stop at these little road side stands and buy carrotts and bananas to feed the animals ( we diddn't buy enough). All of the Veggie eaters come right up to your windows and help themselves. You have to rool up your window of you look the other way or htey will stick thier entire heads in the car.

This lama was very greedy he tried to run us off of the road thinking maby we would feed him just a little more. Needless to say he diddn't look like he had missed very many meals!
We have no idea what this animal was but they really liked Sam (mostly for his carrotts). They had these huge heads and very long twisted horns that they would try to fit in the car. Ella ( who is terrified of pretty much every animal) only screemed through the first paddock of greedy zebras abd elephants. The rest of the time she just told all of the animals to Shoo!!


Ok so this picture isn't the greatest But they had these really cute mommy monkeys that carried thier little babies on their chests.

Here are some pictures of driving around Jakarta. It looks like it could be a town in America untill you look closer.The First picture is of a statue the expat community calls the Pizza Man. He is some kind of mythological hero here. the have statues of heros everywhere!! The second picture is of traffic notice all os the motorcycles. They are like a swarm of flies any time you stop they fill in all the gaps!! there is also a nice vew of the glare off of Sam's face.