Oh the difference a degree makes! Last night the thermometer in my room dipped just below the 27 degree mark to 26.8 and honestly you wouldn't believe how much better I slept. Perhaps it is that I now have the angle of the oscillating fan figured out too but whatever it was I am in heaven this morning! Lynda says that she even had to use a blanket last night! Interesting how those little things (like sleep) that we often take for granted seem so spectacular when they return after alluding us for even a few days! Gotta be a lesson in there somewhere and we're in the perfect place to reflect on stuff like that. Bali really does have such a zen-like vibe that it is easy to fall into healthy habits.
Speaking of reflecting.....some of you may be thinking....."WTH do they do there? Anything but type in the blog?!" In answer to that (if you are wondering)....yes we do. We do lots in fact and at the same time you gotta know that when there is no TV, no phone, no netflix, no radio, no housework, laundry, or cooking, no tree to put up or decorations to hang, no baking to do or cards to mail.....there is a lot of extra time in the day! (...thats not to say that we don't miss some of that stuff and we certainly miss all of you!) As well, as much as many of you have mentioned how much you enjoy reading along it is actually pretty fun reviewing our day as we reflect over a few of the things that we've seen and done. In addition, being able to go back over it years later is a HOOT! In fact we got into one of the Mexican ones the other night as our entertainment for the evening and we both peed our pants laughing!! I do have to share with you something my sister Karen sent me in a text this morning. Karen prints off the blog for our mom to read and over the years Karen has given me a hard time (in a good way) about my verbosity (ie: I talk a lot!). In our first text a couple weeks ago I asked her if she was able to keep up with printing the posts out for mom and she replied that "those aren't posts....you're building a fence!" Last night in another text she added, "I've had to petition the forest industry to extend their clearcut on the surrounding mountains in order to fill the paper supply needed to print your blog!" Good one Karen! I might be verbose but you are hilarious!
Life here is tranquil and as we all approach this busy Christmas season know that there is nothing "busy" going on here at all! Evidence of just how "in-the-moment" it is here was presented to us last night when we were out for dinner. The owner of that little place also has a boat and Lynda asked him whether he'd be going out in the morning. He replied that "maybe...it would depend on the weather" (consequences of the rainy season and the recent earthquake). Lynda then asked him what day it was (as we have no idea) to which he replied, "I don't know". If that isn't evidence of just how laid-back life here is I don't know what is. Lynda just came up with another challenge for all of you. Sit down, clear your mind of everything that you have to do, take your phone off the hook (or turn it to silent), and look at the clock and keep looking at it for 15 minutes. Or if you don't have 15 minutes (which means you're WAY TOO BUSY) then just do it for 3 minutes. Done? See how long it takes when there is nothing else to do but just that one thing.....well that is how it is here EVERY DAY......ALL DAY..... Now you know what it is like to "live" in Bali. We have our little "vacations" here when we run around like all the other tourists fitting 2 days worth of stuff into 1 but the rest of the time we just "live" here and "living here" is pretty laid back!
Sun is shining in blue skies so we're guessing its gonna be a scorcher today. The couple in the bungalow next door were off bright and early this morning and won't be back till dinner time so we have the pool to ourselves again today - wahoo! I love it that tourists try to fit too much stuff into their time here...it means they have to leave the property all to us. :-).
I see that it is approaching 10:00 a.m. so time for me to hit the kitchen and come up with something delicious again which isn't hard to do when all of your ingredients are organic and as fresh as fresh can be. So.....till later folks......
As seems to be the theme of our days in Bali....we did a whole lot of nothing again! Pool was perfect, sun was toasty, and wind in the leaves was just as pretty today as it was yesterday.
Tonight on the other hand we lived it up large! Well....not really....we just went back to the same little warung and enjoyed another meal of Nasi Goreng (fried rice with lots of veggies and a nice side salad). The big news of the evening was when we stopped in to book Maday for a tour of Lovina and area for tomorrow. We see Maday every evening as we walk by his shop. He is the guy that has the Karma shop where we bought our sarongs that first night. Since then we've met Maday's wife, Neeya, and his two sons, Indra and Andre. Indra is the littlest one - he is 8 yrs old and Lynda has taken on the job of his personal english teacher. Today, the test was "nose, eyes, ears, teeth, and elbow". Even though it had only been 24 hours since he first learned those words he managed to master them all tonight. The funny part though was that as soon as he saw us nearing the store he made a beeline for the back room in the hope of hiding. His mom and dad would have none of it though and little Indra found himself in English class again. School is out for the semester break here until the new year but poor Indra will get no break this term. LOL. Actually....I'm betting he's loving the attention and his cute little smile when he gets the words right gives him away every time.
As well, tonight while speaking with Maday and family Neeya explained that she and Andre had rice mixture smeared on their backs because they're feeling cold. I can't figure that one out because it is still almost 30 degrees here! The rice mixture is made up of soaked mashed rice and grated galanga (asian ginger) until it is a paste-like consistency. That gets smeared on their full back and after about 15 minutes the chunks fall off and just a white really thin paint is left behind. Supposedly, that helps warm them up and makes them feel better. Maday put some on Lynda's wrist and I offered up my buggered up knee to see what would happen. As a result both of us are now sporting whitewash on part of our bodies. I'll go outside to knock all the chunks off before I go to bed but am going to be just like a Balinese and leave the "paint" till morning. Wouldn't that be funny if I hop out of bed in the morning without a buggered up knee?!
Nothing more to report for this day so here's L & L signing off from Lovina.....till next time....
L & L
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