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Well, Nes and I have finally set­tled in. We’re stay­ing at Nes’ par­ents’ house in Ban­dung. Their neigh­bor­hood is sit­u­ated atop one of the foothills of Bandung’s sur­round­ing moun­tains. From the roof, you can see down into the val­ley that the city occu­pies. The weather is beautiful—high sev­en­ties and partly cloudy. Heaven com­pared to what we left in Min­nesota, yet every­one keeps apol­o­giz­ing about it. “It’s rainy sea­son right now, it’s usu­ally much nicer” they’ll say. Every­thing is rel­a­tive I suppose.

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Suka­haji 87, Agnes’ par­ents’ home

We’ve been busy run­ning around town final­iz­ing wed­ding plans. Yes­ter­day we met with the florist and picked out flow­ers, bou­quets, and cor­sages. Today we’ll meet with the band and recep­tion emcee. Yes, you need an emcee for wed­ding recep­tions here. From videos I’ve seen of Nes’ friends’ recep­tions, they’re quite a show. Not exactly our style, but it’ll be inter­est­ing. We were able to talk them into down­grad­ing from fire­works to con­fetti canons though—just to give you an idea of what we’re deal­ing with here.

Tomor­row, we’ll head to Jakarta. Nes will visit the US embassy to renew her visa and We’ll pick up my par­ents from the air­port. Right now Nes and her mom are out run­ning errands, so I have a few hours to myself.

9 comments

  1. What no fire­works! Oh well… Con­fetti canons will do… You know a canon that fired both fire­works and con­fetti would be the coolest thing ever or one heck of a fire haz­ard. Glad the weather is nice!

  2. Yes, I think it is dif­fi­cult for the likes of Alex and myself to imag­ine this type of wed­ding plan­ning. Alli­son will get a kick out of the fire­works. I hope Don is plan­ning on shoot­ing some video for the rest of us back in the US!

  3. 70 degrees! Oh, you poor babies. It was 13 below yes­ter­day morn­ing in beau­ti­ful down­town Bemidji. Enjoy and take lots of pic­tures. (I wish I was there, but Beth and I are leav­ing Sat. morn­ing to stay with Grandpa Dinger for a cou­ple days.)

  4. I have decided I am start­ing a pool to get those fire­works for your April affair here… you are going to regret not get­ting them!

    I think you guys need to plan a slide show for all of us west­ern­ers who are hav­ing a hard time fath­om­ing the whole day’s events. I think it is going to be amaz­ing!
    I can’t wait to hear more about your adventures!

  5. Not sure what kind of video you’re inter­ested in Jeff?! Sub­mit suggestions…

  6. I talked with Grandpa this morn­ing and he had just fin­ished talk­ing to Grandma. He said she was hav­ing a great time shop­ping but, he is a lit­tle con­cerned because she has their credit card.

    Have a GREAT wedding!

  7. Hah! Don’t worry about there being a lack of video or photos—everything will be thor­oughly doc­u­mented. It sounds like there will be a whole crew of pho­tog­ra­phers and video­g­ra­phers fol­low­ing Nes and I around all day start­ing from my hotel in the morn­ing to the recep­tion in the after­noon. We’ll return home with plenty to show :-)

  8. I guess you’re off the hook Mr. Dinger. You’ll just have to sit back and enjoy the wed­ding. Which, now that I think about it, has con­cluded. Con­grats from us all back here in CST!

  9. Your par­ents must be loaded! Their home is so fabulous!

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