Alhamdulillah, Safely Arrived Back Home in Seoul

Alhamdulillah, we finally got back to Korea on February 11, 2014 as scheduled. Now we're ready for Spring Semester to start again. Eyra, Freya, and me, of course, are about to start another year at school:) as for Mama, she's ready to be there for all of us. 

Waiting for the *limousine* airport bus that would take us to Taereung. The comfy-bus cost 15,000 Won for adult and half of it for kids.

(*had we extended our vacation in Indonesia for a mere two days, we would have been stuck in Jogja for more than a week longer...due to the closure of major airports in Java during the eruption of Mount Kelud in East Java). 

So, Alhamdulillah we're back to Korea as scheduled. 

Economy Class En-route to Yogyakarta

Yup, this is the typical economy-class. Though it is fully air conditioned, the fact that peddlers ( as seen on the pic) are allowed to go into the compartment is one thing that I regretted. Not that I am against those people, but...compartment should be sterilized from any peddlers. period. 

hmm..I just couldn't believe it myself...wait..isn't that supposed to be a room air conditioner used for home appliances? and..what are they doing on the train? hmm..should I call it a creative way of air conditioning the compartment? 

okay..enough for that...one thing for sure...I could enjoy myself looking out of the window where the green fields of rice terraces passed my by. 

I am concerned and wondered as to what happened and how these green fields may have looked like after the Kelud Eruption? I hope that they're just fine..since I heard that that rain had fallen across Kediri. 

Bye-bye my hometown. See you again in one and a half years? Insyaallah.

I saw Kediri's Arc de Triomphe again...and....

again and again....

yup, this time..I took this picture while I was in a car circling the roundabout on my way to my uncle's house. 

Lots of people were taking a stroll along the Arc. 

The sign indicating that we could just circle about this monument designed after the famous Paris' Arc de Triomphe, Only this one...is Kediri' style. 

With a perfect blue sky, people were having an on-site picnic to admire this monument.

BUT......

This is what happened after the eruption of Mount Kelud on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2014. Volcanic ash, sands, pebbles covered all roads and streets around this monument.