14 April 2006 A trip around

Today me, Ike, Indira, Willy, Andi, Edward, Dewi and Evelyn (friend of edward) went on a travelling spree (well, especially me, Ike, Indira, Willy and Andi). I went to Ike's houseat 6.50, since noone is available to take me there, I decided to take the public transport. Whew, it's quite a long time last time I took public transport, but everything went well. Nothing important happened this morning.

We departed at 7.30 in the morning. Originally we want to visit Getsemane Garden in Ungaran. We missed it, and decide to eat breakfast in Soto Keri. After breakfast we went to Banaran, a coffee plantation between Ungaran and Salatiga and have a cup of coffee. Initially we wished to go around the plantation (using a golf cart) after coffee. However waiting the cart is like waiting for Godot. It's never arrive. Therefore we decide to continue our Journey.

Our next stop is Gedono, near Salatiga. It's a monastery, selling a delicious Yoghurt. We bought some youghurt and visit the church (catholic) there. Today is the Good Friday. Unfortunately we missed the mass, so I made my personal prayer and took some pictures there.

Our original plan is to visit Kopeng and Ketep. However it seems that our friends still haven't finished their business, we decided to pass Kopeng and went to Ketep pass instead. The journey was quite fun, but uneventfull. I decided to do something (howl with the window open) It was around noon, however since we have our breakfast quite late, we are not hungry. The weather is cloudy, so there's not much to see in Ketep pass, since their main and only attraction is watching 5 mountain peaks around it. It supposed to be beautiful, I managed to took some picture though, but no peaks. Maybe I should visit it again sometimes in the future.

Indira decide to have lunch in Magelang, since the food in Ketep is mediocre. We had our lunch in a restaurant in Magelang, it's quite delicious, I should checked the name again with Indira, since she's the one proposed this place. Dewi & co. joined us a while later, and we continued our stop in Kyai Langgeng. We decide to go down to sit and enjoy the view for a while until someone proposed to continue our trip to Yogya <phew>.  On the way back to our car, suddenly rains pour down heavily from the sky. We took shelter in a gazebo in Puri Asri hotel. Our chances to reach our car seem so bleak, when suddenly a shuttle car (I believe belonged to the hotel) appear. Dewi quickly shouted to call the driver. The rain still pour down heavily, and one by one we enter the car, but since it got no wall, inside the car is soaked with rain water. Unfortunately I didn't take any of these events. We continue our trip using the shuttle car to parking area. Unfortunatelly the driver only able to take us to the market, there's still a couple metres to our cars. Edward and Willy decided to go and took some umbrelas from our cars. They're soaked wet, so I lend Edward my shirt, and Willy decided to buy a pair of Sandals.

Our last stop is Yogya, we went to a new mall there, Ambarukmo Plaza, I bought Voltus DVD there. Afterwards it was dinner time, We had our dinner Gudeg (a famous local cuisine) in front of a Chinese Temple in Jl. Brigjen Katamso No. 3. After our stomachs full Dewi & Co. want to continue to Saphir Square, we follow them. There's not much to see, and we're tired anyway, later we decide to have some Ice Cream in Oh La La... Cafe. Mine was Chocolate Brownies, and it's soooo sweet. We're very tired and going home at 21.00.