Bali Bali Bali Bali rockin' errywhere

(^What went through my mind almost the entire time we were there.)

Bali was MY FAVORITE. It's hard to choose between Queensland and Bali, but I'm gonna say they're both my favorite because they're different countries so ... I win.

Because my mom has stellar connections through Zumba, we stayed at the Villa of the mother of one of mom's friends. And it was 5 star, let me tell you. There was a fresh water pool, breakfast served every morning on the terrace over looking endless hills of greenery, authentic, home made Indonesian dinner served, and our own personal driver, Tegu.

When we got there, our hostess, Maria, showed us around and we were all awe struck. It was gorgeous and way more than what we expected. The rooms were large and the shower had these windows so you could WATCH THE SUNSET WHILE YOU SHOWERED. Man, it was amazing.

She set us up with a driver because navigating the streets there is like crossing the freeway blind and deaf. You will die. So Tegu took us everywhere we needed to go in this rad, low key short bus. No seat belts, yeah! It made for a bumpy ride but I really enjoyed it. In Bali, there is no stop signs and no turn signals and not traffic lights. There is only one rule and it is "drive when you can and stop when you can't" it's kind of like every man for himself out there.

We visited Ubud and all the street markets (Which surprisingly sold a very large number of wooden penises? Um ... what?) and the Monkey Forest the first day. I made sure to keep all items close to my body and sent out a lot of "DO NOT TOUCH" vibes because those monkeys will just jump right on ya. Trust me I witnessed it. They were wild. We ate dinner at a restaurant, the kind that you take off your shoes and sit on a pillow kind, that sat in front of a palace with a huge pond out front that had lilies floating around. IT WAS WILD OK.

The next few days we went back to Ubud, and rode elephants, which was the best because we had a great guide. He would sing, threaten to grab us spiders so we could take them home as gifts, and refer to our elephant as either: Lady Gaga, Sexy lady, Beyonce, or Obama. I think mine and Karly's favorite quote from him was "Lessgo, lessgo jurassic taxi!" He offered to take a picture of us on the elephant, and then insisted on a selfie with him in it. We adored him. We got to feed the elephants afterwards and obviously treat ourselves to some pictures.

Be prepared, there's 37 of them.

^^ The 6 hour flight was a doozy. Luckily, we had a chat feature and could send messages to each others screens. Karl and I had a grand old time sending each other unreadable song lyrics back and forth even though we were sitting right next to each other.

^^ You're looking at the terrace we ate breakfast on every morning. With lots of croissants. Lots of them. And the most delicious blueberry jam I have EVER tasted.

^^ Balinese style Villa

^^ Just chillin' in our fresh water pool. We had the place all to ourselves.

^^ I'm hoping someone else has read the book "Weslandia" because I was have dejavu.

^^ SEE? WESLANDIA.

^^ The humidity. GUys. 87%. My hair was untamable.

^^ Just a small town street.

^^ Oh that? That's our pool. 

^^ Scenes from an Indonesian restaurant

^^ Sitting in the shade outside a 7 eleven barely living because the HUMIDITY.

^^ We visited a Hindi temple, but here and everywhere you looked on sidewalks and outside businesses, were these little baskets woven out of leaves that contained flowers and little candies and incense as offerings. I thought they were cute.

^^ Inside the Hindu temple

^^ A monkey totally uninterested in anything to do with me.

^^ Just chillin. No worries. No cares. Just chillin.

^^ Ridin' dirty.

^^ Our elephant driver. I can't remember his name and I feel terrible. But he was the best ever.

^^ My elephant love affair.

^^ Still active volcano. Thankfully it was calm. We went to some hot springs nearby that are naturally heated because of this volcano (hence the name hot springs) and it was a beautiful outlook.

^^ An Indonesian dance show. Very long, crazy fast music.

^^ The view from our Villa :)

^^ WARM WATER GUYS WARM WATER YA HEAR.

^^ At the Tanah Lot temple/beach. Getting her to look was not worth my time. Also there was literally sweat rolling down my back and legs it was so hot and humid.

^^ Sunset on the beach on our last night there. So dreamy.

-m