I really should stop calling her the devil spawn shouldn't I but if you'd only seen her this morning at brekky.........MY GOODNESS. I lost two layers of skin from my hand after waiting patiently for a good 25 minutes for her to stop blowing her stack.
Honestly I think the people from Bali Aussie will have some sort of cleansing ceremony after our visit. And I don't say that lightly. The older guy who must own/run the place was very nice when I was apologizing in my best Indo.
He smiled and said, 'It's O.K. She's tired'. It was 0800hrs and she had only been awake 45 minutes.
Brekky was good by the way. Full Aussie Special, toast, tomatoes, eggs, coffee, bacon, ham, toast and fresh fruit juice 25000rph or there abouts. Child behavioural classes are going to be stacks more expensive than that when we get back to Australia.
Got back to hotel and had to talk the wife into letting the 4 year come to WaterBom Park instead of leaving her at the hotel alone. No it was THAT bad.
The hotel offers a free shuttle service.
We did the whole gazebo thing this time. I'm glad we did because it works out pretty cheap when you share the cost. The deposit is a bit steep but you get that back at the end of the day and I think it only cost $10.00 per family by the time we got the deposit back. So $20.00 all up. We had number 26 which is near the kiddie's pool and offers great relief from the sun. The sun never hits the inside of the gazebo there and the toilets and small ice crème shop are right next door.
I think the massive Dutch family near us had the right idea. They're smart people the Dutch. They did invent cheese and wooden shoes after all (sorry mum). They dragged some sun lounges into the gap between two gazebos and got the full benefit of the shade without the cost. I admire a frugal man because I sure am not (that's such terrible grammar)
The food was O.K. Nothing to write home about so I won't. No I will. Cass had the squid and chips. Squid was cold. I had the pizza, which was good. The kids had a burger and sundry junk food and ate most of it so it must have had no nutritional value what so ever.
Hey, does anyone know why they call places like WaterBom Park fun parks? If it was so fun why do they have the roughest floors on the bridges and slices through the whole length of the concrete paths leading up to the waterslides. I know it's so you don't slip over but buggar me it hurts after about 4 hours lugging the eldest up and down that tower. Felt like I'd been wearing masseur sandals fitted with number 9 grit emery cloth (sand paper).
The slides are fun but there was no way I was doing the boomerang. I've done the slingshot before and it took me 3 days to get over that. I watched one guy come down the boomerang today. He started at the top with a full head of hair. By the time he got to the bottom he was bald as a badger.
No dramas with the rug rats. Everyone thought I was spoiling the kids when I bought them two ice crèmes each. Little did they know it's because I love those ice crèmes called Bazookas. They're just plain ice crème with a chocolate coating but it's got cashew nuts in the chocolate. Yummo.
So that's WaterBom Park.
Actually that's not quite it..........Had an interesting thing happen to us last year when we went to WaterBom. It was pretty quiet last year and not too many people at the park. We were at the little kids slides. The ones more adults seem to use than kids.
You know you have and if you haven't you want to. Anyway. I was watching the crew and the big boss was sitting with me. A massive Samoan guy walked through with a group of young girls. He was a dead ringer for the Rock. The guy from WWF and he's been in a few movies.
Look him up on the net. The wife digs him.
I turned to the wife and said, 'That's Kate MOSS'. She looked and said, 'No way'. I said, 'Who do you know that comes to WaterBom park with a body guard?' It was Kate Moss. Geez some of her friends needed a visit from the fat faery.
Her bum has more sags than my second and third chins. I thought it would be funny to walk up to Kate then turn to the body guard and say, 'Are you the Rock?' You always think about these things afterwards.
Got a taxi back to the hotel. Most trips from to or from the All Seasons to anywhere near the Dynasty cost around 18000rph.
We haven't caught up with our mate Steve yet. He manages the Alila Spas and has lived in Bali for 12 years. He's probably pushed most of you off a bungy tower at some stage or another. He came to Bali to work on the old AJ Hackett tower right in the middle of Kuta. It was great fun because we got discounted sling shot and bungee but the food was awesome there too. Pity it's gone.
I asked Steve one day, when we were at the top of the tower, what they did with the old bungee cords. "I'm pretty sure you don't want to know but I'll tell you", he said. 'We give them to the other bungee towers'. Mmmm......
He invited us to Ku De Ta tonight. But after the breakfast incident I wasn't keen for our first night out to be at a restaurant with all the beautiful people and for the second born to go ballistic within arms reach of a bottle of tomatoe sauce and two hundred people wearing white linen and cheese cloth. Plus Nuni, Steve's girlfriend hasn't met the kids so we were keen to make a good impression.....
We ended up at Indo National and I have to say it was a good move. We had entrée (great bruschetta) three mixed seafoods, chicken parmegian, the kids had mee goring and the girls two cocktails each. With all that and drinks for the kids and Shayne it was 539000rph (about $75AU). That's pretty good. The owners are Australian and very accommodating. The service is fast and excellent. The place was packed and the toilets 9 out of 10.
We met the girls there after they visited Ken Ko across from Indo National for a foot massage.
Shayne won points with Cass tonight. He suggested we take the pencils and paper for the kids. The second born was well behaved and in fact all the kids did well.
He is sooooo gunna get lucky tonight.