Entertainment

Excellent dance performance after the wedding ceremony.

Sleep!!!

Oh, delicious sleep until the birds woke me up at ...6 am maybe? This is a pic of where I'm waiting  for the other sleepyheads. Yesterday's shopping trip was a bust for me. The batiks I was finding were around $25  for 2 m. pieces and there was no bartering to be done. Pooh. Although, really, it is NOT like I need more fabric. Lunch at Bridges in Ubud was very good! And owned by a Canadian, to boot.
Last night just about everyone had arrived from countries hither and yon. The meet and greet included a buffet featuring a suckling pig. I wandered off to bed at 9 pm.
Today's schedule: breakfast for members of the bride's family, afternoon wedding , then party, party, party.
Yum - my coffee has just arrived. More news later...

Sightseeing

Tuesday night was a trip to Tanah Lot to see the sunset. There is a large tourist market and a temple there, but the attraction for us was the landscape that has been carved out by the surf, leaving large cliffs where tourists can watch the sun go down. You can also watch the silly tourists who trap themselves across the little causeway when they don't realise the tide has come back in. Ha ha, thankfully it was not me!
Watching the sunset must have helped with the jet lag because I slept soundly last night from 9:30 pm until 4 am. Yesterday I spent the day ON VACATION and lounged by the pool, swam, investigated the beach, read a book, and enjoyed a couple of cocktails. Mmmm, nice.

Sleep

Ah, a delicious, solid, 5 hours sleep. With my head on a real pillow, not squashed against the window of the plane.  I turned my light on at 4 and read for a while.
I must find out where the chanting was coming from at 6 a.m.? By the time that stopped the birds were up and making a racket so I resigned myself to getting an early start on the day. Next mission - search out some coffee. I am pretty sure the chanting was not coming from one of us guests.

Bali

This is the view from my balcony. Yup. That's my pool. And my Indian Ocean, too.  This place is freaking beautiful. The surf is really (!) loud and as you can see, it is right outside my room. I am so tired - if it keeps me awake tonight I will honestly cry.

Hong Kong

I left home 22 hours ago and am waiting 4 hours in the Hong Kong airport for flight number 2. It is 5:30 am here and none of the coffee shops are open yet. I have already been apologetically denied entry to the "fancy" lounge where Mary (grandmother of  bride) is waiting because I am flying economy. And they confiscated my wee scissors that came with me for embroidery. Damn. The weather is warm though!! :-)

Leavin' on a Jet Plane...

This is what will have to wait until I return.  It has been patiently waiting until my cast was removed, and now the poor thing has to wait again.  This has wool batting - it gives a lovely poof that really defines the quilting.

If you are bored, here is a LINK to the villa where I will be staying in Bali.  We have 5 bedrooms in our villa.  If you want to see the whole place (I think the wedding has booked four of the five villas) then click HERE.  Please note - this is not how I normally travel.  Usually I go on a bus and stay at motels with a convenience counter in the lobby offering stale muffins for breakfast and paper cups for the coffee.

**OMG - THIS IS MY POOL**

My brother is already in Bali with his wife - they went on Tuesday and missed the bad snowstorm in Alberta.  My nephew and his wife left last night and will still be in the air when my plane departs. The bride's grandmother (my brother's m.i.l.) and I leave tonight.  She lives about 10 minutes away from me so we are traveling together. Flight number one takes us to Hong Kong (15:40 flying time, breakfast and dinner), then flight number two takes us to Denpasar (4:45 flying time, lunch).

The hydro in Indonesia is different voltage so I will have to borrow someone's converter to charge my smart-ass phone, and hopefully (?) I can add one or two blog posts while I'm away.  It is still bugger cold here but it will be hot, hot, hot there.  Oooo - excited!!!  I spent yesterday trying on clothes to see what I could still squash my winter-chubby arse into.

If you have not been keeping up (!) I am going to Bali to attend my niece's wedding. 

She lives in Singapore, which makes Bali a nice quick little hop on a plane for her.  The wedding takes place on Thursday, I suspect hangover remedies will be exchanged on Friday, then I fly home on Saturday.  On the return trip we sleep over in Hong Kong because the flights don't line up.  I may do some shopping?? 

The last flight, from HK to Toronto is, again, 15:15 hours.  Departs HK at 5:05 pm, arrives Toronto at 8:20 pm.  Ha ha - how to turn 15:15 hours into 3:15 hours.  Hopefully 12 hours worth of wrinkles will disappear, too.