Where in the World is Natalie Suderman?

Saturday was a bunch of odds and ends as we each made one request for the day, and then our goal was to make everyone's request. First, mom wanted to visit Chinatown, which we had tried to visit yesterday, and failed. But not today! Homemade coconut cake. Ugh, so good. We haggled, we ate coconut cake, we bought nail polish remover. Our second request was a return to central market for more batik. Let's go! We found some cool stuff on the way New shades, same crew We were able to satisfy our batikking needs (batikking, I don't think that's a word) And since we were here anyways, dad's request was to have some more ice cream ribbon. Chocolate edition For lunch we found the beef noodle house Ruth recommended we visit yesterday for lunch, but since we didn't seem to find a lot of things yesterday, we found it today instead. I'd rate this as the second or third best dish I had here. It was so ta...

And what a good Friday. It's Friday, I can't believe its almost over! This trip has been such a blast and jammed packed, but absolutely amazing along the way. Our first activity of the day was doing a short city tour. As per Ruth's recommendation, we made sure to stop at all the highlighted landmarks of the city. A mosque A water clock St. Mary's church Have another flower ...Our next site, a sister in frame, out of focus The map keepers. I excel in navigation A clock tower We found a textile museum that had all kinds of information and displays for different ways of making batik (hand painted/stamped fabric) shoes, tapestry, metal weaving and more. It was interesting, but Amanda and Dad appreciated the museum much more than I think I, or mom, did. So Mom, Nicole and I hung out at a cute cafe in the museum and ordered a charcoal banana brownie (not the greatest) and some lemonade, which gave mom a littl...