Since the last time I wrote we’ve enjoyed our first full day of sunshine! Wahoo! Could this be the beginning of the end of the rainy season? I know it really won’t be over until we leave in March but....perhaps it will get to a place where the rain just comes for 20-30 minutes at a time followed by sunny skies instead of what seems like an endless downpour with intermittent drizzle!
We were wishing we’d saved our pool day for this sunny day but honestly neither of us believed it would stay sunny and then Mother Nature tricked us! So instead of poolside we checked out nearby spas for the next time we’re ready for a massage. We located a little alley just across from us that is home to three different spas all in a row and by the end of the day and a lot of walking....I ended up in a chair at one of those spas with Made (pronounced Maday) giving me a reflexology massage and seeing if she could work out whatever it was that I did to my knee while walking yesterday. I think perhaps she read it right when she said....”maybe it is tired?” Yes, Made....my knees are definitely “tired”! :-). That little alley with three spas is super close to us and interesting as they have some different treatments available. One offers some kind of Ayervedic treatment where they drip warm oils onto your forehead (isn’t that what was called Chinese torture?) and another of them does something with soy wax from a candle! I’m not sure about that one...it almost sounds like something that could be a little kinky! Hot wax from a candle??? We’ll see how brave I feel! One of them also offers a chocolate massage (but they don’t have the rice field view or the copper tub so am not sure it can compete with Sedona Spa) and one of them offers a sound/massage combo that I’m pretty sure I’ll try at some point. What’s not to love about this place?!
Last night for dinner we went back to have Indian across from the palace as the little Indian warung we wanted to try wasn’t open. Good thing we both really like Indian as tonight we’re going for dinner with Jati and Rhiannon and they want to try Indian so.....we have our fingers crossed that the little warung is open this time!
We spent about 5 hours this morning sitting across the street at Maha. We started there with breakfast (decided it was time to give ourselves something different for breakfast) and then continued with a visit over coffee with Jati and Rhiannon out in the back yard until I the downpour drove us inside.
After Maha Barb headed down to CoCo’s to pick up some supplies for our room (Bali peanuts, instant coffee-like stuff, cheese and crackers) while I came back here to catch up on this blog. I’m still typing and Barb has just returned with bags in hand. Her comment as she came through the door (or should I say expletive) was “fucking monkeys” as they had attacked her with her two bags of food from the grocery store en route home. She managed to fight them off the first time by yelling and literally pulling back on her bag and the second time a man with a chair came to her rescue. Yes.....they are evil effing little bastards! I guess we should have known they were out in full force today as while we were walking home from Maha we saw them overhead everywhere. They were on rooftops, on telephone and power wires, in the trees, on the tops of alley walls, hanging from branches and clinging to awnings on the front of shops. Perhaps today is some special monkey outing day and they’ve all left the forest! I wonder what the people who paid to go into the forest today are seeing??? Any monkeys left in there? LOL. Actually I’m sure there are as there are about 10 million of the little bastards!
Better sign off for now and get cleaned up before heading out for our second night of Indian food. Although having sat under the “helicopter” (overhead fan) for the past hour I’m feeling much fresher than I was when I arrived home from Maha!
Till next time,
Lorrie and Barb
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