Merry Christmas everyone. As we are a fair number of hours ahead of most of you, its already Christmas day here in Indonesia. We are currently motoring around Lombok to find a good place to stay a few days. Weather has had us pinned down the last couple of days so we didn't make it to Bali as intended. Oh well, Lombok is beautiful, and we'll do our Christmas shopping after Christmas... We are in the middle of the rainy Monsoon now. So it is overcast and rainy with occasional torrential down pours. It looks like we may get a break from that weather for about a week or so, starting later today--largely because a hurricane forming south east of here may suck all the nasty weather into it. Which is great, as long as it stays SE of here...

The attached photo is a surprising rare picture that includes all four of us, plus our new Komodo friend--unfortuantely he is a bit blurry....wrong aperature setting, and I didn't want to walk around the dragon too many times to change it for our guide...