Day 3 – Not Exciting Material to Write About

What 1 million 620 thousand Rupiah looks like.

The multi-tiered fish pond out side the breakfast place

The pool from the beach.

Low tide, it goes out a long way.

More low tide

Pool!

Tree at the pool.

Bird kite, they recently had a festival.

The front of the Aston Bali resort.

Okay, this is going to be a short entry, ‘because we spend most of the day lounging pool side. But seriously, look at the weather in the pictures. Can you blame us?

We woke up and went down for a breakfast of beef in black pepper sauce, a sticky rice cake thing that was covered in coconut and brown sugar sauce, and homemade papaya jam on toast.  We headed to the pool, where the resort entertainment facilitator had just come down to introduce a water aerobics class. Of course I had to jump in – any excuse to look like a goof, am I right? Whatever, you can laugh, but I had fun jumping around, joining in with our instructor whenever he felt it necessary to “Woo!” and so on. James and I swam for a bit afterwards and went back for some lounging.

We had lunch poolside and made friend with one of the waiters – a guy who normally worked at the Kuta Aston resort, but was doing a training stint at ours. He let us know where all the places to party were in Kuta, so a good friend to have. We both gave Nasi Goreng and Nasi Lampur another try. The Hotel has some pretty good chefs, as we definitely enjoyed our meal more this time around.

Back to the pool for more lounging and swimming, a perfect way for us to spent the rest of this gorgeous afternoon. We dried off and grabbed the camera. We explored the hotel and the street for some more pictures, then headed across the street for some dinner. We ate at “Coco Bar and Seafood” listening to some live performers. They played a collection of western and eastern pop songs – they even threw in some Canadian content with some Neil Young! We ate a chilli dish and a seafood curry. Of course we were served the obligatory “garlic bread” when we sat down. The food was surprisingly good – they had a charcoal grill in the dining room that all the meat was grilled on, so the aroma was amazing. And once again, we sat outdoors, still amazed that we were actually in Bali, and looking forward to what adventures tomorrow will bring.

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-L-Lisa