Day 43: I wanna rock and roll all night...

...and party every day. The meaning of this title will be clear shortly.

The single flaw in our itinerary thus far is that we had one too many days in Jakarta. Not bad considering this is a 45 day trip. However, we still made the most of it. After doing our morning workout (consisting of sets of push ups and sit ups to maintain our statuesque bodies) we headed to the National Museum. We should have anticipated what we were getting ourselves into when we only had to pay 7 cents to get in. Most of the lights in the galleries were broken, making it difficult to see anything, and what the lights would have illuminated would not have been that exciting to see anyway (more pottery and Buddha statues). The lack of air conditioning in an unventilated building in 90 degree weather made it even more difficult to enjoy.

Cultured-out and not wanting to see another clay pot for years to come, we headed to the locals' shopping mall. It was overwhelming to say the least. 6 stories cram-packed with stands stock-piled with the lowest quality goods imaginable. Shirts for a dollar, wallets for 2, and watches for 3, and quality that was correspondingly low. Despite our previous day's activities, we managed to make it through without a single purchase - we do have some standards of quality. It was, however, interesting to walk around and see the locals do their shopping.

We hopped in a taxi headed for the shopping complex that we had lived in yesterday. After making it only 2 km in an hour and ten minutes in the ridiculously dense traffic, we paid the driver and decided to walk through the city the rest of the way. We soon stumbled upon an Independence day parade and realized the cause of all of the congestion. Just our luck. It was great to witness another colorful display of Indonesian culture.

Craving entertainment and with nothing else to do, we bought tickets to see the new G.I. Joe movie - a perfect film to enjoy with the theater's unrivaled sound system for only 2 USD. The movie was non-stop entertainment and tapped into our child-like love of cheesy action sequences (this is by no means a recommendation to see this movie, as our longing for American culture has definitely skewed our judgment).

On our way out of the theater, the hostesses of a restaurant started calling to us and pointing at our shirts. We soon realized that we were walking past a Hard Rock Cafe, and our matching Hard Rock Cafe Bali bro shirts had attracted their attention. Even though we were planning on heading home, they convinced us to stay for the live band coming on in 10 minutes. What a great decision to give into their high pressure sales. We spent the next 3 hours rocking out to covers of all of our favorite American hits (including the KISS song mentioned in the title). The band's ability to play (and know all the lyrics) of any requested song was truly impressive. An extremely drunk Asian's dance moves added to the already entertaining evening.

This concludes the last full day of our travels, and tomorrow afternoon we depart on our 24 hour journey back home. We know this hasn't been the most exciting last few days for the blog, but we promise an exciting last entry for all of our beloved followers upon our return.