Dance Show

We went down the south of Jakarta today as Annalise had been asked by her teacher to dance in a show they were doing at the Mall. Annalise had only practised the dances a couple of times so was a bit unsure of the moves but she made up for it with enthusiasm! She looked super cute up on the stage. She did two dances, one to some bizarre pop tune in some Asian language, and another to a Hi5 song. She was better at the Hi5 one, but Andrew, in his excitement, forgot to press record on the camera! Doh!

Have attached a link to her dancing in the first one. She's a move behind the others most of the time - it cracks me up - but she's as gorgeous as ever! (No bias here!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO4O5P_QgBQ

The mall we were in is apparently (so the Indonesians say), the biggest mall in the Southern Hemisphere. It was certainly the biggest I've been in. But, it has some great shops, including Dorothy Perkins and Next and Harvey and Zara and Harvey Nicks and Top Shop etc etc! And they had size 14 and 16!! Wahay! But, you'd have to have a pretty big bank balance to shop there. At least I know where to go if I'm desperate to find some things.

We're on a long weekend here for Eid Al Adha. Yay! Monday is a holiday. Some people have gone away but we're just staying at home.

Friday night our 'bar' was open so we relaxed with friends around it which was great. Only two more weeks of school to go!

Yesterday we went over to Sam & Teresa's for a BBQ dinner. We had a great night. The girls get along so well with their little girl Abby who is 2, and Annalise wouldn't leave baby Zach alone! (I can't believe he's now over a month old!)

The girls are doing well. Juliette is as cute as ever and Annalise is great although she likes to test us to see how far she can push us. She's started getting upset again recently about missing all her Taipei friends and is constantly asking when she can see her 'best friends' again. It breaks my heart to hear her talking about how much she misses them. It's tough.

Annalise was banned from TV On Friday as she went into my makeup bag and emptied all the compacts, eye shadows and lipsticks and rubbed them into the carpet. As well as a bottle of Andrew's aftershave and so the playroom was locked and there was no TV so she had to amuse herself in other ways, the naughty girl, so she spent the day doing arts and crafts and making up songs and dances. I actually think she had a good day, damn it!