Friday, December 21, 2012

Santa Claus is Coming to Jakarta!

Living in a country that is nearly 90% Muslim, we did not have high hopes for Christmas this year.  We have been surprised at the amount of Christmas cheer around Jakarta.  The malls are all decorated for Christmas and we have been able to find things like decorations for our apartment and wrapping paper for our presents! We were especially excited to see "Santa's Ice Village" going up in our closest mall!  It was set to open up December 6th and we were waiting with baited breath (I was a little curious to see what Santa looks like in Indonesia).   For 50,000 Rupiah (approximately $5.00 USD), we were able to...
Meet Frosty...
  Touch the magic tree for 8 seconds while making a wish...
Meet Santa's Reindeer and get our picture taken with... 
SANTA!!!

Lucky for us, there was a Santa citing at the American Club!
 Dustin got to perform in the Nut Cracker!
It was interesting to hear some of the things American kids, living in Jakarta, ask Santa for - Things we can't get in Jakarta like candy canes and Chips Ahoy cookies topped the list.  D-Man asked for a race track!
Santa gave him a little gift!
And we got a picture with a REAL LIVE Santa!!!

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