Picking up some supplies

On Friday we had a chance to go get some supplies: 

school supplies, a few batik shirts, and some fruit.

It was pretty nice when we went to the bookstore. We showed the attendants the list, and they helped us gather everything we needed.

Then we got a taxi over to a batik market.

W and S met a boy who wore a T-shirt showing "The Original Cranky Duck"

While we were leaving, we talked to this becak driver for a few minutes and finally I asked if I could take a picture of his fusion shirt: Che and Jokowi.

We just wandered from there, and we bumped into a crafts market. There were also several fossil vendors. And one vendor sold boar's tusk bracelets. When we compared the bracelets to each other, we realized they were so uniform they had to be made in a factory, although they looked real to us when we looked at them each individually.

As we were leaving the crafts market, we walked by a ring market, where people seemed like they were bidding on different stones and rings.

Closer to home, we stopped by a fruit market and saw a prickly pear cactus, thriving far beyond our desert southwest, much different humidity conditions.

And right next to the prickly pear, we found a plant that looked like a poinsettia. But it was different.

One of the fun things about being here is that we're so unfamiliar with things that we get surprised all the time. For instance, we were walking down the street right next to a tree, and from within the tree there was a loud crowing. We looked and there was a big bright rooster strutting around.

Back at home, we had a late lunch, and we gathered the husks to prove it.