My Weekend

Yeah... I know it's a bit too late to post all things about my last weekend. But I don't give a d*mn since this is my own blog so it's up to me when to post something here, rite? Hehehehehe

Last week, Papah, Mamah and Chisa, my lovely little princess came here. Fortunately, My boyfriend aka si Mas was able to spend his holidays here in Jogja too. We all work in different cities and it's a bit difficult to match our time to be together. That's why I was so excited. So excited that I almost forgot to work well hehehehe...

On October 9, Mamah had her 50th birthday and Papah and I planned a little surprised for her. I took my leave on that day but I didn't tell her about that. One night before, I reserved a birthday cake from Parsley on Jl. Kaliurang and asked them to write a small note on the cake with chocolate. I just reserved a Black Forest since it was the only available cake on that night.

In the morning, Papah and I pretended that he went out to drop me into Ringroad where my shuttle car picks me up everyday. However, we actually went to Parsley to pick up the birthday cake for Mamah. BTW, the service from Parsley was really nice , the waitress even replaced the note on the cake with the new one since it wasn't really nice for me. Besides, they gave me complimentary number-shaped candles to be put on the cake. After picking it up, we went to Pasar Colombo trying to find ballons for Mamah. Unfortunately, there was no ballons vendor . We directly went home. On the T-junction before my housing complex, we parted. Papah went to the usual way of going home while I went to another end to divert Mamah's attention. The funny thing is that while I was hiding near my neighbor's fence, their barked at me and it almost made me jump and throw the cake for I was very surprised). Then, I put the candles on the cake and lighted them up. Papah couldn't help himself of being patient. He kept asking me to be quick. He wanted to show the cake to Mamah as soon as we can. Then, when Mamah wanted to take a bath, Papah called her and I showed up with the birthday cake and sang "Happy Birthday" song for her. The funny thing is that Chisa is the one who was very suprised by the cake that she didn't want to sing, went to the bedroom, and told us that she wanted to sleep again .

The day after, si Mas arrived. I picked him up from the Tugu station. My family planned to go to Telaga Sarangan to celebrate Mamah's birthday. It seems common but for us it's great since it's seldom for us to be together this day.

In the afternoon, we went directly though we didn't have any map of Telaga Sarangan. Yeah, we also did this when we went to Dieng. I thought that we could ask somebody in the street for the direction. Call us the explorers hehehehehe .

Nah... since we didn't know where Telaga Sarangan is, we just went to the usual directions. The trip was like Jogja-Klaten-Solo-Sragen-Ngawi-Madiun-Telaga Sarangan. It took us about 5 hours!!!

Fortunately, Papah works in PLN that he managed to call his friend there and asked whether there is a Villa of PLN in Telaga Sarangan. And there is!!! It is a big, clean, and well treated house fulfilled with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,a family room, and hot-water, the most important thing in a chilly place like that .

You can google Telaga Sarangan if you want to know more about this place. Actually, it's only like a highland with a telaga. Yeah, we can compare it like puncak but less crowded. There are some speedboats and swan-water-cycles (I don't have any idea of what we call Sepeda air bebek-bebekan in English ). Besides, there are lots of rentable horses for you to ride along the telaga side. The cost to rent the speedboats with 25pk machine is Rp 40k for one round in the telaga and for one-4-km-ride along the telaga side with a horse, the cost is Rp 40k. They are all reasonable since it was a very long trip on a horse back. For the typical food, it was quite nice and tasty. But it was a little bit too sweet for me who likes salty food.

being tehre for only one night and one day (yeah, we arrived at night there), we learnt that actually it is better to come there through Tawangmangu. It is faaaaaarrrrrrrr shorter than if we come through Madiun. We can cut about 2 hours trip . The way through Tawangmangu was a bit stiff but the scenery was AMAZING!!! It was breathtaking.

We took a rest for about 15 minutes in Tawangmangu. I managed to see the Waterfall (Grojokan Sewu Waterfall) but si Mas told me that we had to step down for about 1000 stpes before we could see the waterfall . Hell yeah, I won't do that for a kind of waterfall. It's just waterfall, rite!

Then, we decided to go directly to Solo. Again, we didn't know where to go. We just followed the direction (please send my gratitude to those who made the green-street-direction) and we arrived at Solo at about 10.30 am. We went to Orion Bakery to buy some food for Papah. It was really HOT in Solo. I don't know whether it is the typical temperature of Solo or just because of the climate change.

It took us about two hours to find the way to Solo Square since si Mas would like to visit his boss who had just moved to a branch office there. We went around the city trying to find the way is. And finally, at about 1pm, we could find it. Overall, Solo Square for me was not quite attractive. I prefer Amplaz to it. The food was also so-so. We spent about 2.5 hours waiting for Pipit (si Mas' little sister) to arrive at Solo. She didn't come with us in Telaga since she had to work.

We picked her up at Purwosari Station. And managed to spend the rest of our time swimming at Pandawa Waterpark (the new waterpark at Solo Baru). But, the entrance ticket was too expensive for we had to pay Rp 100K per person. Then, we decided to go home directly.

We stopped by at Sendang Sari restaurant (if I'm not mistaken) in Kalasan to eat. And, this restaurant completed the whole package of our holiday for the place was nice and the prices were reasonable.

Geez, I could hardly wait for our next trip. Mamah has already planned to go to Owabong for our next holiday... Yea... yea... yea...