This week has been crazy with arriving home from Singapore, teaching a full day of classes and then climbing Mount Fuji! I scheduled today, Saturday, to finally get myself caught up. Maybe not on all my blog posts, but at least I can start! Maybe I'll even make it to the commissary for the first time in 6 weeks. The pantry game is going well!
Let's see...I left Japan on July 29th with a 7 hour flight to Singapore. We, Erin, Krystal and myself, spent 6 hours in a transient hotel at the airport (inside of security no less. We had to leave our checked bags at lost and found over night.) Notice that the backpack I'm wearing was all I had for 3 weeks with the addition of a shoulder bag for during the day! I impressed myself with my packing skills!
We left for Bali at 10 am and were at our tropical destination by lunch time! Our first hotel was in the city of Ubud, about an hour from the airport. Our hotel was nice. A cute little cottage about a 15 minute walk from the city center.
We did what any girl would do, we hit the ATM and went shopping at the markets! The conversion from the Bali rupiah to the US dollar is about 9000:1. So when I took out money from the ATM, I would get about 1 million rupiah. It was confusing at times when buying things at the store. How much is this? 80 cents? 8 dollars? Even more so since they rarely list prices with the extra 3 zeros. 80 rupiah? No, that's really 80,000 rupiah. All prices in the markets are negotiable too. By the end of the trip, I was tired of haggling!
We wandered the city of Ubud for our first day, found an internet cafe to email our families and hubbies and ended at a great restaurant with one of my favorite desserts from the entire trip- black rice pudding with coconut milk and ice cream. Let the vacation begin!
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