Family Gathering at Pelabuhan Ratu: 12 hours round-trip by bus!

29 March - 1 Apr 2012

My office held a family gathering at Pelabuhan Ratu, West Java.
At first we were afraid of taking Faith there since the trip took about 6 hours (12 hours round-trip). We were also worried about the mystical tale about the hotel (Nyi Roro Kidul etc).
But we decided to take her there anyway because we didn't want to be apart from her :)

We prayed that everything would be all right, that Faith would enjoy the trip. And yes, Faith turned out to be a lovely baby during the trip! She didn't complain about the long trip there and back home. Not once she cried during the trip. Even I felt a bit of headache as the road there was not straight like a toll road, but it was curvy and rocky.

Faith on the bus, standing and sleeping :) 

Took picture at Lido

The hotel, Inna Samudra Beach, was very old. It was built around the sixties under the direction of our first President, Soekarno. It has a reserved room just for Nyi Roro Kidul.  It was a pity that the hotel was not properly maintained (carpet and wall were dirty, blankets were old, etc..). 

Found an antique phone in the bathroom...

There was some kind of outbound activities in the second day. Afterwards we could choose few activities such as rafting, flying fox, paintball, etc. Since Faith was too little to join any activities, we were just relaxing by the Citarik river. Took pictures and drank young coconut :) 

 The boy was my colleague's son, Farrel :) 

Notice Faith's expression on the right picture :)

In the evening, we had a door-prize distribution (every employee received one) and I won a 32inch Toshiba LCD TV!! It was the highlight of the trip I guess :) 

I experienced the verse Luke 6:38, "Give and it will be given to you", as a few days before the trip, the TV on Faith's nanny's room was broken. I gave our TV to her. I jokingly said to her that maybe i'd win a new TV from the trip (as I knew that there'd be a door prize). And it came true :) 

No activities on the third day. Just relaxing and went back home. 

We're glad that we decided to take Faith there.