White Water Rafting!

Up about 8:30, I couldn't sleep, I've been getting too much sleep recently.

I had breakfast and showered, sat around, about 10:00, woke up Kristin. She slept for 12 hours straight. We went to out for an American breakfast for only 9500 rupiah. The bacon was disgusting, it was some weird beef hamburger concoction.

The minibus for white water rafting picked us up about 10:50, we headed to another hotel to pick up a British chick, Louisa. There was already a Japanese guy in the minibus. We headed to the main office, paid the balance of our bill, then it was about a one and a half hour drive to the start of the rafting.

The rafting was awesome! We were concerned it was dry season, the river would be low, which is why it was half price. It was like a bunch of amusement rides combined into one: bumper cars, twirly bird, etc. At one point, we were going down some rapids backwards, and ran smack into a cliff wall. Kristin and I, sitting in the front, went flying backwards, off our seats into the floor of the raft! We also kept getting hung up on rocks, and kept getting all twisted around. Saw lots of waterfalls, stopped at one where we could stand under it and get our picture taken.

The grand finale was an awesome 3 metre drop over a dam. Louisa and the Japanese guy, sitting in the front now, must have flew about a metre off their seats when the raft crumpled at the bottom. It was hilarious and lots of fun!

AFter it was over, we got an amazing, authentic Balinese buffet dinner with potatoes, rice, noodles, chicken, pork, beef, garlic bread and fruit. It was amazing!

Got back to the hotel about 5:45 and made arrangements to meet up with Louisa at McDonalds at 8:00. She may move to our hotel.

We sat around for a while, then about 7:30, headed for McDonalds, met up with Louisa, and we all went back to our hotel, and had a few drinks, then about 11:30, headed to a few bars.

I left about 12:45, used the internet, then back to the hotel.