Nov/070
Bali – Day 3
10.10.07 – Luke
Today was about shopping.
After the usual sleep in, eat breakfast, swim, we sat in the pool drinking bintang and chandy. After that we decided to walk to the beach.
There are heaps of stalls along the way, and with the owners yelling out at you ‘good price’ or ‘morning price’ or ‘honeymoon price’, we were surprised to make it to Kuta square. There we did some shopping – I got a bintang shirt.
We looked around for a particular perfume for Melody, but despite help from the locals, we couldn’t find it.
Then we went looking at DVD’s. We found the store with the best price / range ratio, and picked out 48. It came to RP300,000 ($37.50). Then we realised that we didn’t have that much on us, and left backto the hotel for a pizza and drinks. Talia had a strawberry daiquiri, which she enjoyed immensely.
Another swim, and then we headed out again for hair ties and ear-rings. We returned with that, and a bit more (which was to be expected, I suppose).
Dinner at a restaurant on Bakun Sari street was interesting. I’ve never seen canaloni or lasagne served like that before.
Then we went for a lovely walk through Kuta square and along the beach. It was really lovely and gave us a new appreciation for Bali.
10.10.07 – Talia
After walking the streets and buying some things we decided to save our $ for the elephants 2morrow. But not before choosing 44 DVDs we wanted.
We actually chose DVDs @ every DVD store we went to and finally decided that we would buy them from a place where they were cheapest. About $1.20 a DVD.
We made our way to Kuta Square for this, an incredibly easy walk – just down the end of Bakung Sari street. We must have stopped walking just before so many times.
We spent lots of time in the pool which was quite nice. Later we went shopping with no $, and that was quite nice. We found a place 4 dinner that would compliment our limited budget and my cocktail of the day was a Blue Lagoon. I remember making them when I did my bar course.
So far I’ve had a tequila sunrise (to remember the 1st drink Luke ever bought me), a long island tea, a strawberry daiquiri, and the blue lagoon.
My aim is to try a different one every time we go out, because they’re so cheap here, and I’ll probably never have them in Australia.
Dinner was… interesting. Luke had Canelloni and I had lasagne -> very similar, and not much like what we’re use to. When we ordered I said 2 Luke, “Do you feel bas for ordering Italian food in Indonesia?” and then when it came out and we started 2 eat eat it we decided ‘no’ because it was actually something completely different.
We saw over 100 baby turtles in buckets @ the beach. SO cute. The man was telling us they’re having a ceremony 2moro and releasing them. We’re welcome to come along.
It’s still hot here, and it spits rain every so often. We’ve been buying bottled water -> 3000RP for 1L (about 40c).
xox
P.S. I also tried Luke’s white russian one night as well.