A note about yesterday that I forgot. Kristin is afraid of heights, and to get to the water from the white water rafting office, we have to hike along a sheer cliff, and take lots of stairs down to the river. Same at the end of the rafting, we had to hike up a lot of steep stairs to get up to the restaurant. I had to hold Kristin's hand, and she squeezed tight, she was so nervous. But she did it! She was quite proud, and she took pictures from the top, so she could show everyone how high she was. Yay for Kristin!
Up about 9:00, showered and had breakfast, then went for a long walk past some of the BIG resorts, to Waterbom Park, a big waterpark with wave pool, waterslides, etc. We're going to go one day. Got back about 1130, sweating from heat and humidity. Kristin was up, she had bought a bunch of CD's that morning and was testing them out, while waiting for Louisa. After she got here, the three of us went to the CD place and Kristin exchanged them. Then we headed to the beach for about an hour, got hungry, went back to a restaurant near our hotel, ate, then dropped our stuff off at the hotel. Then we walked up to Louisa's hotel, so I could pick up the converter, and we were going to take a dip in her pool, but the pool was closed today for treatment. And the adapter wasn't the right kind anyway.
We hung out in her air conditioned room for quite a while, then walked back to our hotel along the beach. For the Kuta Karnival that happening right now, they have a big skateboard park on the beach, with boarders doing their thing, and they have a stage set up with traditional music and dance happening, presumably Hindu. We got back to our hotel and I showered, and went to the bank, and because Kristin is a wuss, she went back to Louisa's hotel to have a hot water shower. I actually prefer cool water showers now, and taking a hot water shower would ruin that.
Hit internet for a bit, then started reading "Life of Pi", one of two books that Louisa gave me, because she's finished with them. I've only read the authors notes and chapter one, and already it's quite funny.
I went for supper, then back to the hotel and made a gameplan for the rest of my time travelling. I'm going to stay in Indonesia until mid-Novemberish, then head to Australia to meet up with Ryan, then as soon as he leaves to go back to Canada, take my return flight back up to Kuala Lumpur, and go back to Indonesia, this time the northern island of Sumatra. They have a national park there that is apparently very nice, can see gibbons and orangutans, and could see lots of other stuff, like elephants, rhino's, tigers and clouded leopards on the treks and rafting trips they do there. They also have SE Asia's largest freshwater lake that's apparently quite beautiful. After that, work my way up to Thailand for the full-moon party (Jan. 6), then back down to KL and get back to Canada.
So, that's my gameplan.
Kristin and Louisa showed up a little later (10:00ish) and we went out for a drink. Kristin is going to spend the night at Louisa's place, with the A/C, and tomorrow Louisa is going to move to our hotel.
Kristin also decided she will go to Gili Islands (and more?) with me, but after her birthday. That way we're not in a hurry. In the week or so before her birthday, we'll head to northern Bali, to Lovina, which is apparently very nice (Louisa was there last year, and liked it).
We left the bar when they kicked us out, I went back to the hotel and to bed about midnight.
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