ok first have to say that im typing on a pc with the letters stickytaped onto the keyboard, hehehe not all of the letters are in the right place so will just have to try and do my best
Anywayz
day 1
Up bright and early to get to the airport. We bought duty free once though the boarding gate. Friends who had gone to the airport the day before and ordered all theirs (being very organised) were still waiting for theirs after we had boarded the plane!! They ended up just grabbing everything off the shelf and dashing on board.
Garuda was ok, 5 star compared to Merpati (AKA "Muppet" or "Lacky band" airlines(huge lacky band holding the door shut - I kid you not, on our last Muppet airlines flight). Not as good as air paradise though...
Kids excited, boss sitting for most of the flight with a frozen expression on his face (not a good flyer!)
Landed ok in Bali, got off the plane and was waiting in line at immigration - a glance over at the loos brought back memories of my horribly humiliating "toilet paper tail" incident that happened on my honeymoon many years back. Never lived that one down! too many wines on plane!!! Always check butt in mirror when leaving toilet after too many drinks!
Anyways off to the hotel, Dynasty, pretty good there, spent all day at pool and pool bar, met Cacko, her and her family are lovely, didnt really do much else, the boss is now a legend as he fell off the ledge of the swim up bar seats, submerged into pool but still didnt spill any bintang......
Out to Bali Aussie for dinner, was nice about 220,000 per family for meals and drinks so was bloody cheap!!
Day 2
We decided to get a massage, best massage in town (and cheapest) down JL Benasari, mophead wanted to get his hair braided he has been growign it for months to get it platted - it loooked bloody awful, much better platted. But at bedtime he said cuoldnt sleep as all the beads sticking into his head, so out all the plaits came - sheesh!!!
187,000 for full hour massage for me and boss, half hour massage for kids each and hair washing and braiding. Mophead had had enough after abgout 20 mins and said so. 5 mins later he said it again, the magpie said why arent you getting dressed, mophead said "she wont stop" we finally got through and they stopped.
Lunch at a little warung on benesari about 80,000 for 4. Shopping, bought halter dresses 120,000 for 2, billagong tshirts 45,000 (good quality much better than they used to be )
More drinks at the pool then, was drinking buckets with cacko, she is good value....out to dinner at Chi Chis Mexican, that was really good and cost about 1047m for 12 of us drinks included (bintang and i had a margarita)
Day 3
Buggered this one up a bit, tried to fit too much in, massage at 10, more shopping, hundreds of dvds etc, the boss is starting to get all shopped out. The eyes just ahvent stopped rolling..... More drinks at the pool - i toook some discs with me in case they played german music! and my discs are getting played at the poolbar.
Had to try to get to the S & S by 4ish, hopeless trying to get 16 people organised so we just went on our own. i was a bit late (sorry shybeejay!) but got there eventually, met shybeejay, smudge, dennisc, the dodgyboys and a few others (sorry couldnt remember all your names)
Boss was getting the magpie and mophead sunglasses, tattoo, etc etc as they were bored but soon after mophead got a bad reaction to the tattoo, got told to get into the ocean but when he got in it made his excema flare up! So it was all cut short, only really got a chance to talk to dodgy and co, they were great fun, would have liked to spend more time talking to other people as well (caz i gave them a slap arund the earholes for ya )
Didnt meet cotton wool ears as apparantly he had jetted off to lombok (?) Said i would try to hopefuly meet up with the boys later at the Rama (?) but we got there just as i saw dodgy getting on a bike to head off (sorry missed you boys) after that we just went home as i was a bit tired after the big day.
whew, this has been a marathon sorry for rambling
more later
ta ta
auds xx
ps weather beautiful, a bit cold for me to swim (water bloody freezing) but nice mild days, much easier for shopping