Puri Etnik Hotel Legian

... over to us to help pick up the bikes. It was a pure accident but the guy acted like we had meant to do it. The guy was not hurt and got up and rode off still yelling at us. We just made sure all the bikes were OK and then walked back to the room a little shaken.

Tuesday
- After the emotions of yesterday we just took it fairly easy. Went for a walk into Kuta and then had a massage in the afternoon. (There were ...

... the audience onto the stage area, etc. Bah!

Needless to say I survived the journey home. To my mother: I won’t ever do that again - promise! I’d hire and drive the bike myself – at least I’d have some control then. But maybe just not in Bali….

So was this 'tour' money well spent? Yeah, well…..maybe not!

You can tell that I have a lot of time of my hands with the amount of rambling in this ...

... It turned out as we checked our seat allocation that Greg and I shared the same seat numbers as Bill and Trudy – unbelievable coincidence.

Greg went to the service desk to have it altered and strategically placed himself next to Bill and Trudy at the front of the plane and left the kids with me and Kristy several rows back!

PJ was waiting for us, but any anger Kristy harboured had well and truly abated by the time we arrived. Suffice to say he did ...

Hey Everyone! Hope your all well! Im awesome- its been quite the few days! So after a 24 hour travel time flying to Tokyo and then over to Thailand I arrived at 1 in the morning in Bangkok. I stayed at our family friends house who lives in downtown Bangkok at Soi 8. For any of you who haven't been to Thailand driving here is insane. The highway was 2 lanes...technically...but a third was created for all the insane people( including my driver) to drive down the middle of the 2 lanes ...

... playing drinking games, but my intentions were just. He made me feel like I was a bad, selfish person for wanting to get the toilet. That I could be donating that money directly to the kids. I said I wanted to do one thing for myself and all the future volunteers and besides I was planning on donating some money to the orphans in the end also. Basically, I spent some of the night crying in my room over this. He came in and argued with me and finally we came to some sort of ...

... cruising speeds far beyond what I was comfortable with. At one point I was driving past the airport when a descending Thai Airways jet flew right above the road, blew several pounds of sand into my face, and sharply knocked me sideways. There seem to be no rules of the road here other than "it's your responsibility to avoid hitting me." What that means is that people speed the wrong way down one way streets, drift haphazardly in and out of lanes, make ...

... as they try to figure out what country you're from, every couple of feet? I think some of the sellers are getting desperate because it's the low season now; I got a pair of sunglasses for 10,000 rupiah, down from his original 150,000. I think I was the only person to stop in all day. Went scuba diving today, and frankly I was disappointed. Visibility was about the same as diving in Gloucester, and the water was a lot colder deeper down. I was the only person on the trip, so ...

... highly refined and barely human, the way they twitched and moved their bodies did not seem natural in the slightest sense. It was mesmerizing. I really, really wish you could have seen it. somebody else's picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddysat/3 8947112/ There were some very annoying other tourists there. A man was taking the picture of some woman he was with. He had her pose in a variety of very ...

... of your other friend. If he is here right now, he is not supposed to be here right now. He has trouble." He keeps saying, "You know what I mean?" after each absurd prediction. The girl's look of utter confusion indicates that she does not. It is all I can do to avoid muttering, "Bull---t!" under my breath. Still, he appears to mean no harm. After all, as Buckaroo Banzai once said, "Wherever you go, there you are."

... prior to the sunset, part of the ritual. There's a story behind the whole dance as well. Basically guy meets girl, then bad guys takes girl, then good guy beats bad guy and gets girl back. You'd need some writing to get that from the whole dance, but it was very cool none the less. The outfits were also something else. Wow...following the dance we headed back to the hotel. We walked down the road a bit for some Indonesian dinner and then grabbed a few beers to hang out on ...