refreshed in Jakarta, tomorrow to Laos!

We are in Jakarta right now, enjoying the apartment of a friend of mine whose husband works here for the US embassy. We've done laundry, watched some TV, taken hot showers, and enjoyed flushing the toilet! We're repacked, and fly out tomorrow mid day. Our last stop in Yogyakarta was terrific, it felt nice to be back from the rural areas of Lombok and into a city with it's own verve, art scene, cuisine and some hustle and bustle independent of the tourist dollars. The last two days we visited the Hundu temple site Prambanan, and The Buddhist monument of Borobudor, which was amazing, and one of our favorite stops so far. The monument was built in layers, and as you walk around each layer, stone carved reliefs depict the Buddha's life and teachings. I am in no way doing it any sort of justice here, but can't really. Sometimes there aren't really pictures or words, and even some experiences leave me wondering if I really took it in or if I just saw something and then moved on to something else, but it is days later thinking of walking along the same stones and looking at the same relifs that thousands of monks have come as pilgrimage that I feel what has stayed with me from each experience. That's all for now, more soon! Em