From forest to beach: Bali, Days 4 and 5

So, I have decided to pretty much skip over Day 4.  It was pretty lousy, due to the patch on my eye and an insanely tired and cranky daughter.   Mike and my mom spent most of the day at a cooking class while my dad and I entertained Aliana and attempted to go to lunch- a disastrous afternoon and one I would not like to relive through this blog.


By the time we all headed out to dinner, however, life was better- we spent some time in the market doing some shopping and ending up with some great spices.

We spent some time listening to Balinese musicians

beautiful fabrics.

Shopping in the market.

 

We packed up in preparation for our departure from Ubud the following morning, put Aliana to bed, and Mike and I spent some time in the hot tub outside of our room.  It was lovely.








The next morning we headed for our final breakfast at the mansion, said goodbye to the great staff, and Mike, my mom and I went off for a walk through the village in search of some batiks, before packing up the car and heading down to Nusa Dua.

Artu, one of our great waiters at the Mansion, who took Aliana while we ate breakfast.  Aliana adored him.

basket lady

batiks being made

We found a place were batiks were being made to be sold to Tahiti- most of the batiks at this 'factory' (not much of a factory, really, more like a four people making batiks in their backyard) had "Bora Bora" or "Moorea" written on them- they were beautiful, though, and my mom and I both bought one. 

Kids taking a break for their morning snack at a local elementary school.

 Then, we packed up the car, said a sad farewell to Ubud and headed down to the beach.  (about an hour and 1/2 drive).

We arrived in a resort town that basically looked like it could have been anywhere, and regretted having left Ubud.  At first we were not very excited about our hotel, but quickly settled into the beach/pool scene, and while my dad headed off for an afternoon of golf, we headed to the beach.

Aliana wasted no time making friends in the water.

Aliana drew a crowd of beautiful girls who sat and played with her for a long time.  We considered handing her over to them for the rest of the day, but alas, the girls had to go.

We all loved the ocean. 

We headed back to the hotel, hot and exhausted and long overdue for a nap.  We stuck close to the hotel for dinner, enjoyed a great Thai meal and went to bed.