Here’s the scene: John and I are at one of our favorite restaurants, a dim-sum place. A popular drink here is a lime squash, which is basically lime juice, sugar, and club soda. We ordered two lime squashes and they brought us two lemon squashes. The whole conversation was in Indonesian, by the way.
Hillary: We ordered lime squashes.
Waitress: Yes, lime squash.
Hill: This is lemon, not lime.
Waitress: Lemon?
Hill: Yes, this is lemon. We ordered lime.
Waitress: Yes, lime squash.
Hill: But this is not lime, this is lemon. Lime is green, lemon is yellow. (Pointing to the lemon slice in the drink) This is lemon. We ordered lime.
Waitress: Lemon squash?
Hill: No, see here on the menu? (Pointing) We ordered lime squash. See? Lime squash.
(She brings over another waitress and we go through the charade again.)
Lemon. Lime. Lemon. Lime etc.
(She finally brings a manager over. He is holding a lemon.)
Manager: This is a lemon.
Hill: Yes.
Manager: Different than lime, yes?
Hill: Yes.
Manager: We are out of limes!
Hill: Oh, I see. Thank you.
Only in Indonesia would it take 20 minutes to get to that point!
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You guys still have by far the coolest blog I've read. I just don't think anything could possibly top your adventure stories! I sure do enjoy them so much, thank you for doing this! I'm sure you're well aware of what's going on here (election madness), but too many Americans have no clue what happens outside our (soon to be walled in)country.
Anywho- just wishing you more safe travels and home-made corn tortillas. You both look just great in your photos, very impressive considering all you have going!
Say I still have that address- last time you weren't missing anything yet- what about now? Can I send you something from here? I'd really love to do that!
You all take care- and we're sending BIG LOVE from Austin!
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