Surfer Girls and thensome...

Our warm up run (we all know this was to see if we had been practicing our Baywatch run)



Inge style!

Thats me! I love surfing! Can't wait for my intermediate lessons...Will I get past the break?

Go Yuki!

Our surfer crew!!

I get up early in order to move from my cute hotel, Laghawa, to the fancy Bali Hyatt where mom reserved for a couple of nights. Mami arrives later tonight so I will check into the Hyatt and head out for a day of fun in the sun with my new friend, Inge.
I get to the Hyatt where you are greeted with a lei of frangy pangies that smells so amazing and the sound of a gong. The place is stunning. Smells of incense fill the open air lobby, you look out onto the superb gardens, with waterfalls, ponds, koi fish, two pools and anything else you might imagine. When I went to get a volleyball I was told that if I couldn't find someone to play with me they would get someone who worked there to.
The guys from last night, Kare and Rahul, are supposed to come get me at 11am. At 11:15 and after calling Kare a few times with no answer (he later told me he thought it was a friend he didn't want to talk to, so didn't answer) I decide maybe they aren't coming and I should just head to Kuta myself when alas they appear. Maybe I wasn't being very patient, but I didn't want to waste my whole day waiting around when Inge and I were going to surf Bali. With them is Yuki, a girl from Japan and we set off for Inge (btw Kare speaks Japanese and guides Japanese tourists and divers). We get to Kuta to pick up Inge and I am taken to Bali's South Beach/Cancun...its super dense with shops, vendors, bars, clubs, everything is really crammed together and people are everywhere. Surfboards hanging off scooters and motorbikes. We successfully find Inge's hotel through the maze of streets (more like alleyways) and continue on to Seminyak beach for our surfing lessons.
When we get there and look out at the waves, I had climbed the lifeguard tower with great Baywatch style, I start laughing nervously and we freak out a little about going surfing in those waves that were crashing down with such force. "eF it! We are surfing Bali!" If I don't I won't be able to rub it in Tony's face and John won't let me live it down...so its all or nothing! They give us some rash guards, a warm up run (that I think was just for a Baywatch show-I'm on to these guys), some stretching and some lessons on how to get up and we get in the water. As it turns out its not so scary because we are riding the waves after they break and the water is pretty shallow. Inge has her coach and I have mine and they stand behind the board and push it as the wave comes and scream at you to stand up. What a great job starting at my ass all day!
Guess what? I'm a natural! Riding the waves in Bali on the first try, okay the second, but I got up almost every time and could stay on and ride the wave even turn a little. I love surfing! Can't wait to go with Lore and Tony. Inge didn't have such as easy time although eventually she got the hang of it. Her porcelain skin was also suffering from chafing on the board. Yuki also gave it a try and was surfing Bali in no time! Surfer Girls!!!
After surfing Inge decides she might want to try bungee jumping at the AJ Hackett tower set up right by the beach. It looks pretty scary, but she's hyped up and decides to go for it. I got the whole 5 second ordeal on video...her hesitation to jump and then - "Supergirl", "Go HOLLAND!". She gets her certifiably insane certificate and we are off to Uluwatu temple for sunset.
Uluwatu is set on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean and has a spectacular view of the sunset. There are the famous monkeys running around all over the place, two of which happen to be with us all day...Did he just spank the monkey?....How does the monkey dance go again?
Then we took Yuki to the airport since she would be heading back to Japan that night. Yuki, we love you! I went back to the Hyatt to wait for mom. Tomorrow if mom is up for it we can go to Rahul's village for his great uncle's cremation ceremony who passed away a few days beforehand.


Inge bungee jumps in Bali! Go Girl! Blondie from Blande!