I say Just Back Report sort of, because, all I can tell you about is my shopping and bintangs and more shopping and bintangs, that was pretty much my holiday, ( now, that's what I call relaxing, husband surfs, gives me the money, 'go shopping love', arn't they words that every women dreams about!!!), and with the rupiah being so high, well hello!, christmas presents. My days have blurred into nights, how many kilometers must we walk in one day, (next year I am going to take my pedometer, for that very reason), after shopping all day, go back for a quick freshen up, then every afternoon down at S&S bar, then onto Legian Gardens, who have the nicest, friendliest bar staff, then travel up to Bali Rock, about midnight head on up to Peanuts nightclub, before heading home around 2 or 3, how come, someone wiser than me, may be able to tell me, why it is always 2.00 in the morning in Bali, where do all the other hours go, between 10 and 2 always disappear, okay!!, before someone does tell me, I know it has to do with the beverages consumed in those hours, I just always seem to be walking home at that ungodly hour night after night, at least it isn't 5 o'clock, I can be thankful for that.
We stayed at the Mandira, which was wonderful,on the second night, at 2.30 in the morning, after one of those crawls around Bali, as my husband rested his head on the pillow, I said, 'I'm just going outside for a smoke', walked out and mistakenly pulled the door shut, behind myself. Softly knock, knock, no answer, bit louder knock knock, then snore, snore, couldn't bash any louder, would have woken the whole resort up. Think girl, what else is there to do, but go up to reception, dressed only in my Elmo PJ's. Got to the man behind the desk, security straight on my back, and in a half drunken state, said,' I am really embarresed, but I have locked myself, out of the room and can't wake husband', he gave me a funny look and wanted to know what room, as we walked back, clutching onto wobbly bits, ( I meant mine, not his) I said to him, ' this must happen to you all the time,' he said, 'yeah, but usually, nobody in room!' then, that place being the maze that it is, I walked straight past our place, he called me back, 'you sure you in this room', he opened the door and stuck his head in and there was hubby still snooring away and oblivious to my prancing around Mandira with a big red Elmo grinning from my chest, but I did let him know about it in the morning!!
As I said most days and nights were the same, I am bit , been there, done that, liked it, go back kind of person, okay, others may say boring!!, but what the heck. We went to Peanuts 21st birthday party, had a great night, saw girls do things, that I never really wanted to see girls do, but then again, I suppose we were
in Bali, it was a great show, the bands were good, especially a 12 year old boy playing guitar, he was fantastic, I don't know what he thought of the girls, but I guess he was used to it, they started playing doof doof music, around 11.30, so we decided to head on home, have an early night, for a change. As we headed down the road with a friend that meet us over there, we came across 8 punk kids, they started talking to us, and being a bit tentative at first, ( I had heard about street gangs), we started to laugh and joke with them, some had limited English, but we ended up having the best time with them, until 3.30 in the morning, and would have stayed longer if we could have got a cold beer, instead of a hot bottle of gas!! but, they were such good kids, and we had such fun, it's funny how the unexpected nights, turn out terrific. We were headed home and ended up with these young men, who made us laugh so much. I haven't done to bad, for not having anything to say, but I have so much more to tell you, have to make it a number 2 sort of,report, this is getting to long, and you are going enough already, so I'll be back!! hello to Perthdodgy, how did your mate like his lighter, and also hello to Smudge , the boots ended up being fake, but that is a whole other story, along with stray dogs, and my endless amount of shopping!!! Love and Cheers Maree