Third Day in Bali

I forgot to include this picture in my last post, from our boat ride home. Poor Belen was still a bit anxious after our Thousand Island (super bumpy) boat trip. It was impressive to see her find a safe zone and stick to it. She spent the entire 30-40 minute boat ride home in the below position. We kept asking if she wanted to sit on one of our laps and she just kept saying no, and then did not move. When we finally got to land she sat up and said, "My arms hurt." 

Now on to day 3:

After two early mornings, it was really nice to take it a little slower our third day. We enjoyed the amazing buffet at breakfast, especially the pastries. I promise I did not eat all of these by myself...

Playing some chess before we leave the hotel. 

 We checked out of our hotel down in the southern part of the island and headed up to central Bali. I couldn't get over this massive statue that we kept seeing while driving around. SO BIG.

 We made a quick stop at the Sarawasti temple

 Then went to the Tegalalang rice terrace. The rice terrace was so beautiful. We wandered around the terrace for a bit taking in its beauty.

 We watched some adventurous people on bikes and swings. 

 

 

After the rice terrace we went to the Tirta Empul temple. Loved seeing all these ladies walking around carrying things on their heads.

 It was really cool to learn about Hinduism and see so many beautiful temples and statues. 

 Three year old entertainment outside the restaurant window while we waited for our dinner in central Ubud.

 We had to try some Ubud gelato before calling it a night. Belen, of course, chose the pink ice cream, which ended up being Rose Petal flavor, not the usual strawberry. She said she liked it and ate up the entire thing. I thought it tasted like it should be in a cosmetic isle at Target. Not my favorite. The honeycomb hit the spot for me.

 And then off to our villa hotel to clean up after a hot and sweaty day. The kids were really in to this rock shower.

Second Day in Bali

We woke up nice and early again on our second day so that we could catch a boat as part of our tour of Nusa Penida. A driver picked us up from our hotel at 6:30 a.m. and took us to Sanur where we waited a bit before being led to the boat.

We were told to take our shoes off and put them in these baskets. Not gonna lie, I was a little nervous about finding all of our shoes again. Thankfully, we did.

This boat ride was MUCH more pleasant than our boat ride to Thousand Islands.

 We then got off our larger boat and took a smaller boat to the shore.

It was so cool to watch this volcano all morning. 

Our tour consisted of visiting four different places on the island. We started off with Angel's Billabong. It was low tide, at first, so we were able to climb down and get a closer look. The waves really started to come in as we were taking pictures and everyone was being encouraged to get out, which we did. But not without both kids "falling" in the water first. 

We walked a little further down to see our next attraction: Broken Beach. These views were just stunning. Couldn't pass up the opportunity to take some posey pose pictures. I especially love that sunscreen prop coming out of the shorts.

Somebody was a little hot and tired. I'll let you guess who.

The drive around the island was insanely bumpy with some crazy squeezes past other cars, but I loved all the driving. It was so nice to be out of the hustle and bustle of the city (not just of Jakarta, but even Bali felt that way) and to see so much beautiful nature.

Miraculously, she was able to fall asleep and stay asleep despite all the bumps. My arm was numb after awhile, trying to steady her head on each bump.

 Before our next stop, we stopped at a little food shop and got some lunch. Our driver took us to the food shop where his wife cooks. It was cool to see him in the back playing with their baby while we ate fried rice and fried noodles, and stacked water bottles...

 

 

 Kelingking beach was next. What I would have given to have been able to get down to that gorgeous sand and water. It was incredible.

 While taking a family picture, our driver hopped up into a tree and climbed up a bit and asked us to hand him a phone. Not bad.

I love that Amelia got a shot of the driver up in the tree and what the picture looked like from eye level.

Final stop was Crystal Bay. It was the perfect ending to our tour as we got to jump right in to the beautiful water and have some fun.

  Belen was not a big fan of all the waves that the Indian Ocean had to offer and mostly stuck to playing in the sand. 

 Having a little tea party with dad.

 Darin may hate me for posting a picture of him with his eyes closed, but I just love him and I love the background and I just love this picture too much to not post it. 

After the beach it was back to the dock to get back on our boat and make our way back to the hotel. Here we are with our sweet driver who took us all over the island.

On the way out of Sanur we passed these dragon fruit trees, which was just so cool to see! We have really been enjoying the dragon fruit here in Indonesia.