In Reply to: whats this about bubbles and balloons? posted by kylied on Sunday, 28. November 2004 at 12:26 Bali Time:
We took bubbles and balloons, party whistles etc to give away and while at the volcano my son and me stayed in the van as we were a bit tired, the hawkers came over and were showing things through the window so we decided to give them the bubbles etc. then we had evry person in the area smarming the van telling us they had small child with hands eager to receive something. my husband was trying to take photos and looked back to see the van smarming with people just like bees and a cop walking towards the van too. he raced over (only got 2 photos - i will never hear the end of that)and at that moment we ran out of things to give away and they left us as quick as they arrived!!!!!
we also had bouncy balls and we have never heard adults laugh so much when they got them and were (for a better word) piffing them as hard as they could and naturally the bounce was huge.
the kids at Nusa Dua would stay in one place then while we were shopping move up and get more - one little boy was priceless with his laugh over soapy water!!!!!
we left a frisbee, beach ball, snorkles with the locals and an afl footy at the hotel - next year our cases will be full as it was so much fun giving away something small to us but priceless to the Baliese
Heather