We've fallen in love...

We've fallen in love with Bali's beauty and culture. We actually fallen so in love with the place we are staying we haven't moved on to Ubud yet! One of the guys who works there, Wayan, walked us to the Balinese fire dance last night. As we walked he old us about his family and about his life here in Bali. We saw the performance, which a man actually danced in fire... coconut husks on fire with coals all over! When it was done, Wayan met us outside to walk us home. We asked him how the dancers feet weren't burnt up, he said it was because he danced from his heart and the Gods protected him. It's amazing how hard everyone works here. Wayan gets to work at 6am every morning and doesn't leave until far after dark, but he still says the guests are his family and that's why he loves it.

Yesterday we sat on the porch with the hotel owner, Mikael, and with a man named Alihandro, and talked about the different worlds we all live in. It's really interesting to hear other peoples perspectives. Also, everyone we've talked to has us pinned as western Americans before we can even tell them where we're from.. apparently Californians have there very own accent! :)

Shaun... the toilet water doesn't swirl backwards :(

We're still working on trying to get pictures downloaded, the internet is incredibly slow here!

We miss Belly dog and everyone else... but not that much yet!

By the way, there are mangy dogs everywhere here. Apparently, they are the reincarnation of people who did bad things in previous lives. Balinese people cannot understand why on earth we would spoil our pooches!

Tomorrow, for real this time, we will be on our way to Ubud, the cultural center of the island.