BALI BELLY

This past week was SRPING BREAK for the kidlets, and well the rest of the world. Instead of lazing by the beach for a week the family decided to go to BALI! Bali is in Indonesia incase you didn't know. And it is one of the shortest flights out if Perth (only 3 hours) so seeing that we have never been and will only be in Australia for a couple years we thought we should take advantage at how close we are to many places in this part of the world. So off we went.


We stayed at a place called Seminyak Suites, we had our own villa which had an outdoor kitchen/living room (pictured above). Each villa also had its own private pool (pictured below). I loved this part of it. I love to swim and just being in the water, so I swam every night and spent lots of time in the pool!


We went to a Hindu Temple where we had to wear colourful sarongs because we were wearing shorts (below)




This temple had hundreds of monkeys. They liked to find garbage and eat the last crumbs of some left over pringles (above). There was one teeny tiny baby monkey, and he was so cute!! He had the biggest eyes, and was a little camera shy. He came out from under his moms belly to peek out see everyone! (below)


Another day we took a little drive to this place where they had a fish spa. Basically you put your feet into this tank of these small fish and sit there for twenty minutes. These fish eat dead skin - which when you think about it is SO disgusting - it tickles a little bit at first but then you become desensitized to it haha. After twenty minutes you are done and your feet are so soft!! I would recommend doing this if you ever get the chance the way your feet feel is well worth it!


Next up was Bali Safari and Marine Park. When we got there we were hungry so we ate some food. It was SO unbelievably cheap just like everything is in Bali. They had several different counters you could order from ie. Chinese, Western, Italian. I got Pad Thai, every chance I get I eat this delicious dish! It was only $4.00!

Here we took a family (well minus me cause I was taking the picture and Brittany cause she is at school) picture infront of this HUGE elephant cave sculpture.


At this park we got see elephants bathing! So funny, you could feed them carrots, the little kids loved this!


In Bali the streets are VERY crowded and there really is no such thing as road rules there. A two lane road can easily turn into a 3 or 4 lane road. People were packed on there like pickles. (I say pickles cause they are packed tighter than sardines you'll catch on). Cars faced ongoing traffic at times waiting to turn around, if you wanted to pass someone just cross over onto oncoming taffic no worries. It's not AS dangerous as it sounds because driving over there although a thrill is pretty safe. People are in no real hurry and therefore are patient so it not like Germanic speed racing down the road. There is no public transportation system so everyone and I literally mean EVERYONE drives a motorbike. They are cheap and small easy to manouver through traffic.






Dad picked up some rice while we were at a restaurant. Rice fields are everywhere in the countryside. Rice is a staple crop here and eaten with pretty much every meal. I have seen pictures of rice fields but didn't know what the actual stem looked like, so here it is.


We went to a DVD store and got about 50 dvds for $50 bucks!! There are only a couple that aren't great quality but all the others are great! Everynight we lounged at home and watched some of the movies.


We had dinner at the beach the last night we were there, unfortunatley it was cloudy but still nice nonetheless. As we ate dinner this is what we looked out onto. I loved seeing kids playing in the sand, and people walking along the beach. While we were waiting for dinner I decided to take some pictures of the kids at the beach. I love them in black and white, and how they turned out, so natural looking.








This was our seafood meal, complete with king prawn, lobster, fish, crab, and mussels (i tried one mussel, but didn't like them enough to eat the rest) I loved the LOBSTER though.


Bali was a great place to visit! After a week we were ready to come home. While we were there we got a massage every night! A full body hour long massage there is only $20 dollars. I slept so good!! My body was so relaxed and my muscles were so loose. That was one major reason why I was so sad to leave, those twenty dollar massages were a luxury! But it is good to be home for a short two weeks before I go back to school!