Another FUN and Full day: Om Fred's 51 Birthday

Tuesday, 7 January 2009

Today is Om Fred's 51st Birthday. He is my mum's older brother. To celebrate his birhtday, he took a day off from his office and invite My Grandma, me and my 2nd younger brother to a trip to "Pelabuhan Ratu". My brother cannot come because he's already have a plan for today. So that leave me, Oma Ine, Om Fred and his wife: Tante Monique. His children and my other siblings cannot come because they have to go to school. Lucky me, I'm on holiday :)

We start our journey at 6 o'clock. First we drive Obriga (Om Fred's son) to school and continue our journey. After a 1,5 on the road, we stop at "Desa Bumbu" restaurant hoping to have a cup of hot coffee or tea. Unfortunately the restaurant hasn't opened yet. It open at 9 a.m while we were there at 7.30, few hours early. But the good thing is, we can still enjoy the scenery there. Desa Bumbu is an open restaurant, half outdoor, located in the middle of rice field. The scenery was an eye candy. You can see the rice field with a mountain and a blue sky as the background. It indulge other senses too. The wind is perfect, not too windy but fresh. You can also ear the sound of water and birds are singing. Beautiful! We spend some time walking around the area, taking pictures (will post it later, still on Om Fred's camera), even chatting with the farmer there. Om Fred get tips on "how to make the soil better" from the farmer :)

Pleased with the scenery, we continue our journey. After a long road and few stop (the gas station and some wood craft shop) we arrived at Batu Amrta restaurant, Pelabuhan Ratu. Pelabuhan Ratu is a beach area in the south of west Java and the restaurant located at the edge of the road, near the ocean but we can not reach it (post the picture later, it's hard to explain :D ). 

We had "nasi timbel" for lunch. I enjoy the beach scenery a lot! Love it. After lunch, we go to "Padi Padi" resort hotel, only for a survey. It was a very exotic place! The building is Mediterranean style. The room is also unique, they have an open bathroom :) Yummy for honeymoon couple i think :) So bad they have poor maintenance. If i were a millionaire i would buy that place, give it some maintenance, keep it clean and threw a party there for publication :)

After "Padi Padi" we went to "Samudra Beach" hotel, there, me and Om fred spend some time to take pictures and just enjoy the beach and the waves :) "Samudra Beach" was our last stop at "Pelabuhan Ratu", after that we go on our way back home. We also stop at my other Grandma's house near our home. I arrived at home at about 21 p.m. Even though I'm tired but I'm having a lot of FUN today :) 

*Salute to my "Om Fred" and his way of spending his 51st birthday: sharing joy to his surroundings.* 

"Happy Birthday Uncle! Wish you all the best in life, always on God's hand and may good things happened to you and your family as good as you've been to others :)"