We did it!

We finally did it!  We buckled and payed up for a surfing lesson and who would have thought, it actually worked! Our instructor was this great little Balinese guy who was shocked when we both got up first try and then started catching waves and surfing like it was no big deal. Well, actually we both took quite a few spills in the middle of all that surfing, but we are stoked to have finally got the hang of it! Anyways, we are off to check out the real surfers at Ulu Watu today, and then tomorrow we might give surfing another go, as long as our bodies have recuperated from the soreness! (One downside- the beach from Kuta to Seminyak is highly polluted from river run-off, so every few seconds we had plastic of some sort sticking to us or the board while we were in the water! Not the best place if you are coming for a pretty beach vacation, that doesn't exist anywhere in Bali and you are better off sticking to Mexico!).

Photos: Lovina

A + B in Amed for a special dinner of suckling pig (not my favorite!), but they made awesome hats for us and we dined like kings because we were the only ones in the restaurant!

Seminyak

Well we've been camped out in Seminyak for the last few days and here is a look at a day in the life of A&B:

8:00am- wake up

9:00am- load the laptop up and head over to Zula, an organic/purely vegan restaurant

9:00-12:00- eat breakfast, usually scrambled tofu with maca java, instead of coffee, and then Brian does some work on the computer

12:00-2:00- wander around Seminyak, maybe do some shopping, buy way too many blackmarket dvds (1$ per dvd, but if you buy ten you get 4 free, which means we have way more than we need)

2:00-3:00- eat at a little whole-in-the wall warung by our guesthouse, the best nasi campur we've had yet (nasi campur is a mixed dish, the lady running the restaurant makes about ten dishes, which sit out in a counter and then you choose the dishes you want and she puts spoonfuls onto a heaping portion of rice). We eat two huge portions of nasi campur, with two bottled tea drinks, for less than three dollars total- it's a steal!

3:00-5:00- we try, unsuccessfully, to surf (if the weather clears up). 

5:00-7:00- get cleaned up and either find dinner or drinks, mainly just drinks

7:00-10:00- drink while watching one of our black market dvds

10:00pm- its off to bed...

Here are some more photos from the other side of Bali, Enjoy!