Arrived in Bali today, short 5 hour flight from Hong Kong. Sierra and Sean were just behind us coming in from Timor, we were just going through customs when they came in. We all got our luggage and Sierra and I headed to the hotel while Sean and Casey went to Ubid to leave off some graphics files for public relations work in Timor. Sierra and I checked into the hotel, a nice place with a view of the beach and ocean, long zig zag pool through the middle of it and the most amazing ‘bonzia’ trees in huge pots that were about 6 to 12 feet tall. Sierra is so efficient we then went to a grocery store, changed money, got a phone card and into a taxi within about 5 minutes and were off to Kudeta to get tickets for tomorrow nights dinner.
Kudeta has an annual ‘whites party’ where there is a dress code that everyone has to wear white clothes the theme this year is Be an Egyptian. The place has a large boat in the center next to the dance stage many 15 foot tall statues on the way in of pharaoh looking fellows and a large pyramid at the entrance and on the beach side of the dance floor. I will definitely take photos and post them when we go tonight. This is Sean’s birthday and his choice of a fun evening. Casey and I brought white clothing, as Sierra had asked , now we just have to figure out how to look Egyptian in them.
We had a great pizza dinner and I headed off to bed about 10:30, Casey, Sean and Sierra heading off to the local club to dance. From my room there was really great live R&B wafting in the window for about an hour, lovely way to go to sleep in paradise. The bed was in a window seat with tall glass windows on two sides overlooking a palm tree lined garden-courtyard. You could also hear the waves crashing in on the beach just across the street.
This morning it is so quiet at 6 AM, with no one in the courtyard out front or out back and just the waves crashing on the beach. The sunrise is just a light pink. It is a wonderfully quiet time of real peace, just a gentle breeze off the ocean. Sitting on the deck and looking out over the open ocean with a hot cup of jasmine tea. It is still cool and the birds singing are my only entertainment. Life is good in Bali, everyday.
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