It has mostly been work work work for us these days - after all we have a magazine to get out! - but we were blessed with a long weekend the other week in honor of Nyepi. Don't worry if you have not heard of the holiday, it is a Balinese Hindu holiday, and despite it's niche market we got Friday off.

We headed up to Puncak, the same place you saw my feet dangling from the skies on my paragliding trip, back to the same fabulous Canadian Embassy villas with our friends Chad and Joya. It was a pretty miserable weather weekend, but the rest and relaxation was fabulous, as was the company of several other Canadian diplomats. We did not do much more than eat, drink and play many rounds of Settlers, although there was a brief (and sad ending) adoption of a street cat and an attempt at paragliding thwarted by weather.

We did manage to stop at the great antique furniture shops that line the road to and from Puncak and Howie and I purchased our first, very cool piece of Indonesian furniture. We were shopping for these cool lamps they sell, but this perfect piece caught our eye and we just could not resist. Our new place (which we have still not moved into) does not have a coffee table and the driver was coming back to pick up some things Chad and Joya were buying so, really how could we say no?

Now we just need a home to move the thing into. Should be happening this week, along with a visa run to Singapore, a final deadline for High End Teen and a trip to Bali for the Ultimate Tourney.