we left on the 22 of aug drive to melb spent night at formula one hotel
we left are car there for for $10 a night while we were gone we were flying out at 7 am in the morning with garuda airlines crew on the plane were fantastic we had a stop over at Jakarta which was straight through custom visa ect no wait at all but Jakarta was busy and very intimidating sort of place didn't feel safe there at all couldn't wait to get out of here on domestic plane with grauda air ways again all good once again
we arrived in Bali whoo
we didn't have to go through customs as we flew domestic so it was straight through for us we went out to find our transfers but there where so many people standing out side we couldnt find our transfer person so we jumped in taxi and headed straight to dewi sri hotel.
hotel was lovely gave us late check out because we couldn't find transfer man
off to our room we had room 440 it was clean and neat tidy air con was on dropped of bags back down for few drink s at our bar
the staff they were very friendly and meet few good Aussie there
the next day we had breaky at hotel it was lovely, thought we would go for walk to poppies lane i told my other half not to stop keep walking as we had to pass few stalls to get to the main street OH BUT NO he stopped i looked back he was getting nails clipped brought bag full of stuff that didn't fit oh my god we only had gone 200 meters from the motel
so we took back the stuff he had brought and i said now ill take control of the money so it wouldn't happen again lol
(from then on he told them he had no money and they had to ask me lol)
of to poppies well it was experience first thing in the morning brought t shirts ,shorts ,tops ,dresses, sunny s, we took all the stuff back and thought we would go to discovery brought few things there and had lunch then back to hotel for r and r
meet few good Aussies had laugh and drinks with them around the pool we had tea at hotel which once again really nice
Next day off shopping again poppies 1 and 2 and spent day the rest day r n r at hotel once again meet few good Aussies that night they said how about you come with us to the beach watch the sunset so off we went ,what a sunset got some good shots ....
they introduce us to there mate made dompol so we had organized him for the next day to take us a round.. he came back had few drinks of ark and everything else we had lol and went out for tea down poppies which was lovely
next morning he was there bright and early we had breaky once again at hotel (it was same sort thing every day but was nice and filled you up )
off we went to silver factory ,and the wood carving places at ubud
then of to the volcano and lunch there was full buffet for 100000 each it was very nice food
the friends we meet the night before asked if we could squeeze there pop in with us that's was fine by us so we had enjoyable day out with pop and made back to the hotel had shower got change back down to the bar pop was there talking to another Aussie so we sat with him and the young girl, the young girl he was chatting to was over in Bali buy her self and was to scared to shop by herself ,
i said well come on we will go down with you if you want ,she said will you, so off we went pop in toe mind you he was 80 yr old had walking stick but he kept up the whole way and really enjoyed himself so did she lol
on the way back on poppies 2 they had a free barong dance so we stopped and watch that and head back to hotel as pops family had no idea where he was , we had tea at hotel again and few more drinks with Aussie we meet and made ,
next day we headed off with mades mate bachelor down to billiard center had few games of nine ball then some Aussie 8 ball then back shopping and then to get some professional photos done (GREAT PRICE TO)
last night in Bali so we relax in hotel
next day last min shopping and met the photo man for our pics got bracelet that i was haven made then off to airport
flew out to Jakarta again with gradua and wait there few few hours met few Aussie had tea and coffee with them then on the leg home with gradua again every plane we went on was pretty well empty so we could stretch out on few seats slept the way home since we have been home MADE and his mate BACHELOR have rang us just about every week they are lovely people over there and doing it really hard
and we are planing to go back to Bali in aug next year cant wait this time we taking the kids and going with few friends