Day 24 (Monday)
(Tina) Papak helped Charlie catch a big frog this morning. We all had some good laughs at him trying to hold onto it, chase it around, and put it in our faces. Yes, I jumped out of my chair when he showed it to me, much to everyone’s delight. The frog nearly escaped jumping off the porch with Charlie jumping behind it hot on its trail. He let out a big squeal yelling “The frog did a cartwheel down the hill!”
Jim took the kids swimming in the murky pool this morning. It’s not that bad if you think of it as a really clean lake but it’s reaching our tolerance level. We had a delicious fresh fish dinner and saw the Kecak dance again. We were nervous about the flaming coconuts being kicked around, but this time the only one who bore the brunt of a runaway coconut was one of the dancers sitting along the edge. He had to roll backwards onto the guy behind him and stay bum up until someone scooted the hot coals out from under him. I’m telling you a show like that would NEVER run in the States, let alone every night at one location or another. Imagine Donny Osmond getting in a trance and kicking fire balls around during his Vegas show!
Day 25 (Tuesday)
Shopping, shopping, shopping. This was a very productive day in terms of knocking out some things we’ve been wanting to get. I hope our house is not too Bali’d up when we get it all home. We just love all of the beautiful hand made things – and it seems like everything has a story from the local culture.
Day 26 (Wednesday)
Tina and I had our last cheap Balinese massages today. It feels so luxurious to have someone work your back muscles for an hour for $8! We’ll definitely miss that after the long flight home. Charlie and Sophie begged to get one more massage, too. So we scheduled them for a 30 minute couples massage tomorrow. They were so quiet during their last massage – just laying there enjoying it. I can’t believe they weren’t even ticklish. Later they did have a laugh about when their bums were a little exposed for massaging their lower back.
Ketut had told us that today was a big ceremony day at all of the temples. All over Bali people were bringing large offerings to their local temples. We were amazed at the ladies all dressed up in their fancy temple outfits, carrying one or two layers of offering baskets up on their heads. During the day we had seen lots of people creating intricate creations out of cut palm leaves, which were then displayed all over Ubud on the offerings.
We had a great dinner at Ary’s Warung tonight. It ended up being a little bit fancy, but in Bali you can still take your shoes off for dinner which the kids love! The kids all ate, which makes us feel better about eating out. We did order off the kids menu for them, but the “chicken nuggets” were nicely done strips of breast meat cooked in sesame seeds. They ended up loving our dinner choices just as much as theirs. Charlie was amazed at the bathroom, because there was a pond in the floor flowing between the bathrooms with several koi fish. After dinner we sat for a while watching the geckos, while they brought us cool towels to refresh ourselves. There was a moth flying up by the light, and we saw a little gecko slowly making his way towards the moth… snap – we finally witnessed in amazement a gecko catching something! Looks like he had a great dinner too.
We’ve been without an internet connection at the house for the last few days so we stopped by an internet café to check email before going home. We’ll have to venture out with the laptop before we leave to post to the blog again.
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