Yesterday we went to the police station and helped teach a lesson of English to about 50 policeMEN. So when we got there, we were four white women being stared at by 50 men. They asked multiple times if we were married. It was a little intimidating. But they worked hard with their pronunciation and it never hurts to make friends with the police. Afterwards, we ran out to the market with the workers. Wow. We could smell the durian from far away along with several other of the worst smells we have ever smelt. . We both found a couple of bargains.
Today was a lot of fun! Funny moments and memories for life were made.  We started out the day going to the zoo ( Aka Torture Museum).  The first animal we met was this bird. It was huge! We learned that it could kill you in one kick! We probably got a little too close.. but who really knows what too close is when there aren't really any fences more like baby gates.  Next we went to the Crocodile. Poor thing. It was huge, It was probably 15 feet long atleast.  Everytime we went to the animal cages or fences or baby gates the so called zoo keepers would come over and aggravate the  animals just for us. It was awful. They kept poking the croc with a stick and it would snap. It was soo loud and powerful. We were all hoping that the croc would bite the man or something just because they were so mean to it.  We fed it some peanuts and moved on.  The next cage was the orangutang. It was really funny. It would stick its arm out to us and wanted us to give it peanuts, but not just one. So We gave him the whole bag and he dumped all the peanuts out and then ripped the bag open and put it on his head like a hat.  So hilarious. He has spunk. Then he just wanted us to give him more peanuts. Then we  saw some more monkeys and fed them peanuts. All the Indonesian people were having a better time looking at all the white people than the animals. It was like a two for one kind of deal for them. Then we moved on to the bears.  They were a little smaller than the bears that we have at the Knoxville zoo, but still bears. They were kinda upset all except one, and I actually went right up to it and fed it some peanuts right out of my hand.  (Apparently at this place they assume that all animals eat peanuts. ). How cool is that? I feed a bear out of my hand! SO COOL!. The other animals  that were there were Hamsters, bunnies, pigeons, a tiger cat, bald eagles ( which were in the same cage as the vultures) Monkeys, Alligators, and chickens ( We think that they chickens are just raised to feed the other animals).  All in all it was such a crazy time there. We felt bad for the animals but felt better knowing that we had fed them a whole lot of  peanuts by the time we left. Next, We went to the mall and spent some time getting some groceries with everyone and eating lunch.  Rachel and I along with G and J  always have fun playing in the seafood/ meat department (AKA the petting zoo)with the crab and eels. We always pick the Crabs  up and dangle them in the air just because we think it is fun. It is kinda like there own little petting zoo in the market, except they have more of a variety of animals and are probably treated better than the ones at the zoo. 
  The parking spots here are very tight and so people often volunteer themselves to help drivers in backing out into the road. Today we had a man help us out of our parking spot who directed us in a strange manner. Video of us reenactment to follow. He was not looking behind our car at all. He just basically stuck his head in  our window with his arms crossed across his chest, a cigarette in one hand and waving at nothing in particular ( It was probably the best part of our day, but you just kind of had to be there ). We came back home and ordered cheese pizza with pepperoni- turns out there is no such thing as straight up pepperoni- but when the six pizzas arrived, we had thousand-island-and-potato-salad pizza. Not so great. Thankfully G had made spaghetti as a backup plan. Seems this sort of mix-up happens often.
 I ( Cayla) Finally got RacheI back from the first Roach incident. Tonight, the cat ( bruce)  chased a live roach all the way under her dress. I just ran away silently and didn't tell her  until she felt it crawling on her.. ( Another one of the best moment of the day). The boys  concocted this tarzan looking swing out of hammocks and tied them to the tallest banister and we took pictures and swung and climbed up that for a long time!  It has been a great day and we are looking forward to working in the library tomorrow. Two of the tcks are headed back to  America tomorrow and we would ask you to keep them in your thoughts so they will make it back safely!
 Miss you!

 Cayla and Rachel.