time flies when you are having fun?

it is hard to believe we have been in bali for 8 days but that is what the calendar says and it is time to head on to Oz tomorrow. we have done 3 tours, laid on the beach, hung out by the hotel pool, wandered aimlessly and had a massage. The tours were alright, particularly when driving and seeing the countryside. Each one involved a temple though. Temples are nice but seen one, seen them all kind of sets in. Each tour also involves a "craft" stop where you spend 5 minutes watching someone do something (woodcarve, stone carve, batik paint, etc.) and then far longer than that shopping at their store. Nice stuff but...


we had really hoped to go hashing here but Monday and Thursday we were on tours and therefore planned on doing the Saturday run. Left a message at the phone number on the website to meet the hash bus but did not hear back. Went to the hash bar early Saturday and they said come back in the afternoon, all the hashers would be there. We went, but they weren't. An Aussie at the bar knew one of the hashers so called on cell and it turned out they had made 'alternate travel plans' and therefore no bus and no hash. it was too damned hot to run anyway so we stayed at the bar, drank beer and played pool. Happy birthday to me!!


met lots of Canucks on the tours and at the hotel. Went for dinner one night with a couple from Penticton. it was quite nice. Food choices here are amazing, Indonesian food is a little dull after Thailand but plenty of options to eat Thai, western, Indian, etc.
one of the pictures here I took of my feet on the beach. Anyone notice something unique about this picture that you would never see at home?? Other picture (sorry - it would not downlaod) is from the "Hall of Justice" which we toured. Lots of paintings that relate what will happen to you in the afterlife if you do bad things in your real life. in this one, if you did not nurse your baby then in the afterlife you had a snake breastfeeding for eternity. Passing gas was also a mortal sin so think I am damned..

miss you all, will update from Oz after we arrive.