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Feb 14, 2009: Valentine's Dinner

This was a total surprise. Ellen and I decided to visit our favorite place in Bintan for Valentine's weekend. Ellen suggested dinner on our little patio so I went email to Herlina asking for a room with a larger patio so we could order dinner form room service. Herlina replied that perhaps I would like to consider something from their special Valentine's menu and sent to me a copy of the menu. Well, the Romeo and Juliet seemed quite appropriate. So I asked Herlina to include that. When we arrived, we were assigned to a room with a large porch on the ground level - perfect for dinner the following evening. Sometime, about mid day - Ellen asked about getting a table for dinner and I said - hmmm - lets just watch and see what happens. Several hours later - a table appeared and then - it was transformed into a private dining area. Tjiagus Thamrin (the owner) and his team simply worked small miricles and gave us one of out best Valentine dinners ever. Here is the story.

Everything starts with a sunrise

feb 14 2624 morning sun

A reflection of the sun

feb 14 2670 horizon sun reflection

The full sun image reflected

feb 14 2679 sunrise

Low tide sunrise

feb 14 2680 low tide sunrise

Later - sun is risen

feb 14 2733 sun

Our room

feb 14 2749 room with view

Breakfast is set up

feb 14 2649 breakfast sunrise

Breakfast sunrise

feb 14 2651 breakfast sunrise

The quiet pool and a reflection

feb 14 2757 pool

and Ketut Wiradnyana and his team of archaelogists from Medan

feb 14 2758 survey party

footprints in the sand

feb 14 2764 footprints

Now - fast forward to 6pm. Here is the beginning - setting up the table

feb 14 2782 before dinner

One of the Valentine Miracle Team

feb 14 2784 habibi

Ellen - sitting - she likes presentation, and the guys did a fantastic job with presentation

feb 14 2795 ellen dinner

Ellen and Habibi

feb 14 2836 ellen habibi

Bintan Agro folks presented every lady with a rose. Here is Ellen and her rose

feb 14 2841 ellen rose

Habib with Ellen sort of at attention

feb 14 2842 ellen water

Serving salad

feb 14 2843 ellen salad

Habib has a hidden talent - he is a photographer. Here with our soup - a cream of celery soup with maybe egg drops in it. Quite tasty

feb 14 2844 f e soup

The main course - very tasty

feb 14 2845 f e dinner

The end

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C. Frank Starmer

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