2nd week in Bali catching up with friends!

How excited we were to see our friends in Bali!!!
We first saw Mel Ant and Maddie, we all hung out for a few days in Sanur.
The bubs loved being together and many people thought that they were twins!
We went swimming in the seagara pool on the beach front! The daddy's walked the board walk each afternoon to put the baby's to sleep while the mamas had pampering.
Mel treated me to a facial and foot massage..it was very lush! we had dinners together by the beach!
A couple nights we went to the Sanur festival where we watched music and dance from Bali and drank very cheap mojitos...this is where Mike and Phoenix ate the not so good Chicken....after a hospital visit and $200 dollars less to our name Mike learnt a hard lesson. Lucky the boys recovered quick and we were able to see our friend Ali who lives here in Bali.
Over all we enjoyed our stay in Bali, it was not as relaxing as we thought it could be and we spent way to much money. Also going to hospitals in the middle of the night and having my baby vomit all over me, plus having diarrhea for 2 days is not the ideal holiday but these things happen, after all we are travelling Asia.

Our highlight of Bali was on the last day when we were saying our good byes to our favourite people...it was then we realized that this is a special place and that Bali manage to seduce us in the last moments of our stay!

Thailand's next and we can't wait as it is our second home!!

Shopping in Bali-Sanur style!

The shopping bug got me! It suddenly came over me and I had no control but to shop. I have been looking for a cotton sarong since I had arrived in Bali last week.
We stopped at this little house on the beach front down towards the only high rise in Sanur. There was a sign saying 'Lenny' on the house and there was 3 small stalls.
The woman at the back of the house was refreshing and gentle with a lovely smile...i wanted to spend my money at her shop! After much looking, trying on, lots of nods and smiles I walked away with a beautiful purple cotton sarong and a very cute Bali shirt for Phoenix. I was her first customer for the day and it was already mid afternoon. I watched her do the first sale ceremony blessing where you brush the money over the things in your shop. I was happy to have supported this lovely woman, this was the first time in my life that I did not barter.

Further down on the board walk we came to a row of stalls on the beach front.
Here we found the drum for Phoenix which we wanted to get for his birthday and Mike got a beer cooler. We did barter this time.
Later while Mike went walking with the pram to put Phoenix asleep,I went shopping on my own...oh boy the Balinese are desperate for a sale....'come look in my shop' it is a mantra i have heard so much over this last week. And when you look in one shop you need to be ready to look in all of them, so I had to find some thing I liked from nearly every shop in a quiet row just off the beach until the money run out in my purse. Again i was the first sale.

I wished i could buy something from every one, it seems that the tourist are not shopping and they are only eating and drinking.