Sunday 3 January 2016

Misadventures in Jakarta: Something That Goes Bump in the Night

Japanese katana

A few nights ago while everyone was sleeping, my husband and I were still up interacting with our electronic devices. All of a sudden there was a deafening boom overhead. It made us freeze in whatever actions we were doing.

I thought that it sounded like an explosion but it couldn't have been the fireworks that have been going off every so often since New Year's Day. Usually the firecrackers have multiple explosions but this was one big boom. My husband, on the other hand, thought that some buglars had broken into the house from upstairs.

He quickly checked all the downstairs rooms where we were all staying. Everything seemed fine. Then he looked around for a weapon to use before he went upstairs. He said there used to be an air rifle that his father used to use to scare the burglars away buthe couldn't find that so he looked for the sword that his father had. He couldn't find that either so he grabbed two things that he found.