Silent Night?

Isn’t it so wonderful to crawl into your nice, warm bed with crisp, clean sheets and drift into a peaceful night of sleep? Yeah, well, our Tuesday night was quite a bit different than that. The power went off at 2:30 a.m. and was off until 7:00 a.m.. And here you are almost instantly covered in sweat because the fan is off. There is absolutely no light- it is pitch black and I couldn’t find the flashlight so I was desperately searching for Garth’s cell phone light so I could get to Cale who was standing in his room crying. Within minutes all of the kids were in our room awake. It was not easy falling back to sleep. Fans are great and really a necessity here. Not only to blow off the sweat but also to block out the noise of the Pondok Natals. I know I mentioned them last year, but in case you don’t remember they are tall huts that are built around Christmas time for the Indonesians to BLAST music from at all hours of the day and night. At times they are amazingly LOUD. We also hear the Muslim call to prayer starting at 4 a.m. So, I can’t tell you how many hours (minutes) we slept from 2:30 on. It sure makes you appreciate the nights that you have no interruptions. So we are all dragging a bit-good thing there is spell check or all of my words would be spelled worong, wrong. Ha ha.
Today when Garth and I were out with Cale we drove by a river and noticed a bunch of Indonesian kids playing in the water. Garth stripped Cale down and let him join in. He had a really fun time swimming around with them. The mothers were all downstream washing clothes and laughing. Boy, did he look white compared to them! I got some great pictures of the kids that I will put on the blog site tomorrow.
Our kids had their Christmas concert tonight and did a great job. Emma and Wyatt were in it with speaking parts and Sophie did the singing. Guess what the concert was called? The NOT So Silent Night. Funny, huh? It fits right in to our night here. Tomorrow is our staff Christmas party here with the school. That will be fun.
So, now off to bed, hopefully.
Love to all-
Rachel