March 28 2012

Only 2 more days in Bali, the last few we have spent on Lembongan Island, about an hour boat ride off the main island of Bali. Here the sun shines a lot, the water is the perfect blue colour and we can see a great view of the big volcano on mount Batur in Bali. Silas and Orrin have been talking about people at home a lot and the cats but especially miss home the most when we relocate. Tonight will be our 4th night here so they have settled in well. Yesterday they found some boys on the beach and asked if they could join in their game of soccer and have talked about that ever since.

 A highlight yesterday was riding scooters around the island and doing some cliff jumping into the sea...Silas and Orrin both jumped the 7m cliff while I waited to receive them with an inner tube down below! A nice local guy hangs out on the cliff waiting to show people the ropes and sell them a beer, warning each jumper when is a good time or when to wait for the next wave to pass.

  

Wow Lembongan was truly beautiful!

Seaweed farmer at sunset.

Forgot to mention we spent Balinese New Year in Ubud (1934 in the Balinese Hindu calendar) and watched the locals carry large Oga Oga's (big figures depicting evil) through the streets, playing loud drums and Gamelan. At the end of the evening before 12 midnight they were all burned in the Monkey Forest.