Part 1 (of 1 million)

This picture makes our trip look much more exciting than it probably was, but you weren't there so you can't prove anything...

I'm still tired and I don't want to write a novel right now because I find when I do that I leave a lot of things out and I'm not nearly as witty as I normally am (at least I'd like to think I'm normally witty).

So some of the exciting, unexpected things of Bali first:

** La Senza!!! In Bali! That was like the icing on the cake when we were at the shopping mall in Kuta and we were coming off the escalator and I could see the silver sign in the near distance. Despite my excitement I rationalized that I had not travelled all the way to Bali to buy bras, so I left empty handed :( (then on Saturday afternoon I made a mad dash back into Kuta to give into my La Senza obsession).

** My now overflowing spice cabinet, due to a trip to a local plantation where we found coffee bean trees, cocoa trees, vanilla bean trees and saffron plants. I think this may have been the highlight of our sightseeing for me and I came home loaded with Balinese spices that are oh-so expensive at home.

** The animals there were bizarre; the locals let their dogs and cats run all over the streets seemingly starving to death, but when we went to a family compound on one of our trips they had caged porcupines as pets! Among other things, we saw: pigs, chickens, ducks, pythons, turtles, bats, toucans, monkeys, spiders, geckos, and a flying-lizard, creature thing that landed in Chandrie's hair at lunch one day.

I have lots of pictures, some of which I've put on Facebook, the others will be going up on Flickr soon but this afternoon my computer or the web site was acting up and my attempts proved futile so for now you can either log on to Facebook or you can wait patiently for me to get the others up in my own time!