Heading to the Beach

This a Hindu ceremony we watched from the side walk. The police stopped traffic as hundreds of Balinese marched by.

This is the Aygung River valley that people raft down. It is the largest river in Bali and we had to pay a local kid $1 to show us the path down and he even took a picture for us. It was very steep but well worth the views. The 4 seasons is located on the hills above us with amazing edge-less pools that overlook the valley. It's only $500 a night to stay there :)

Here's some cool things that we have been experiencing the last few days....

-We saw our first firefly. It was only one but still amazing.
-We felt an earthquake today. It actually felt like our chairs were jello.
-We ate our first mangosteen with some japanese guys at a restaurant. (Purple fruit with tangerine like center)
-We ate unrip mango from our homestay owner.
-We went to the same restaurant that Anthony Bourdain(From the Travel Channel) ate at for the best pig in the world.
-We got really lost when coming back from the Aygung River and ended up in peoples back yard.
-We realized the US postal service is actually not that expensive and very reliable. ( It cost us $5 to mail 5 post cards.)
-We realized it is impossible to make a phone call here. The lines are usually diconnected or nobody picks up ( you really take this for granted in the US.)
-We Got a wonderful foot massage and Adam wasn't molested :)
-Adam's majorly allergic to Bali (maybe it's all the incence and clove cigarettes burning everywhere :)
-We still really like it here and we have 5 more weeks.
-A damn monkey tried to steal our ice cream.

So we're off to Padangbai which is a town in east Bali on the beach. We ran into a Canadian couple today that gave us some good tips on finding a secret a beach there. It is very humid here in Ubud and we are ready to expierence some of the beaches Bali has to offer. We plan on being there for 3 days and then heading to the Gili Islands for a week. The internet might be hard to find for the next 10 days so this might be are last post until we get back to Bali. We'll have many stories to share when we get back.

Adios
Adam & Heather