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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Bali Oh Bali - Part 1

The Bali Island is full of legend and stories. I have spent 5 days 4 nights in that island last week. It was a great trip and me and my husband manage to tour most of the island part except west bali. It was really an unforgetable experience with so much things presented to us. The dolphin watching, spa & massage, fantastic food such as grilled pork, grilled duck, pork sate, spicy fish and rice.

Day 1: We reached the denpasar airport around 1:30pm. The custom was not so crowded and after we collected the luggage, we head to the exit door and looking for the driver that we have hired. Sila was holding a paper with my husband name written on it. That how we recognige the driver. We know nothing about the driver at all except his name. So these 4 days definitely have given us a chance to getting know him more. We checked in to the hotel, Melasti Beach Resort & Spa at 3pm and there was a welcome drink being served. Most of the hotel here serve that. Our next 3 hotels also doing the same. After dropping us at the lobby, we managed to catch some time with Sila on the tour details for the next 4 days. The room is quite small but the hotel compound is big and it stretch up to the sandy beaches, winthin walking distance. There are 2 pools available, garden pool and the one near to the bungalow lots. Our room is quite near to the street so you can hear those motorbikes sounds on the streets. Not much time to unpack since tommorrow have to checkout early. The legian beach waves are great and nice. Definitely the best place for surfing. The waves so strong and continuously beating on the beach. After a stroll on the beach, we heading to hunt for our dinner place. Our driver has suggested Warund Madek, which has quite a history there. At first we thought we could walk to the restaurant. So we walked from one end to the other end of the road  but not able to find it. Then we boarded on a taxi that drived us smoothly there. The street in legian & kuta areas are really narrow and mostly are one way. It's more like a lane rather than road.

My husband ordered a drink called 'Arak Madu' & he suggested me to order 'Arak Atap', both are local drinks. And for main dishes, I have nasi goreng special and him have the nasi campur. My husband kept asking me to try on the local drinks. After he took almost half of the 'Arak Madu' drink, he kept complaining that he felt very dizzy. Must be the drink I guess..haha. Luckily I didn't take it though I just sipped few drops of it. After dinner, we walk along legian street, doing some window shopping since this is the 1st place so we thought there might be great bargain on other places. After walked through 2 streets and my husband stopped at one of the DVD store to take a look. Suddenly all black out and no electricity on the whole street. But we continue to walk since there are still people mostly westerner walking along the street. I was impressed by the safety along the street. Nothing bad can be happening at all. The people there are very friendly and nice. Truely an amazing experience. After the street, we turned into a small lane and heading to the beach after asked for some directly from the hotel guard standing outside.  So we walked along the beach to go back to the hotels. We passed quite a number of hotels where guests are having their dinner on the wooden board with strong wind.

Day 2: We have the breakfast around 8pm. The breakfast was very simple, not much choices but the ham are very nice and soft. We checkout at around 9am and Sila was already there waiting for us.



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The Happiest Tree

Last few week I have bought some yoga related books from acmamall.com. The books arrived while I was away to Bali island. So when I was back immediately I opened the parcel and I took out the books. One of it it's about kid yoga story - The Happiest Tree. When I took it out from the pack, my youngest saw it and he kept asking me to read for him. So I told him it will be the bedtime story.

So when it was bedtime, I read the story to him. The drawings in the book quite vibrant the color and it managed to attracted my son attention. He was playing with his toy, wandering around on the bed while I was reading it. So I try to change my voice tone in order to attact his attention. Kids are very sensitive to sound. Everytime when I changed my tone, he walked near to my and listen to it with full attention. But I didn't bother about him but keep on reading. I know he is listening though he is playing with his toy. Then it came to the last page of the book where the picture on the page showing few kids are sitting in lostus pose with hands on the knee, with eyes closed for meditation. So I was thinking why not I try this with my son as well.

So I showed him the page and saied to him 'Why not we try this ?'. Then I crossed my legs followed the picture on the book in lotus pose and put my hands on the knees. He came near to me, sat down and trying to cross his legs but he really don't know how. So I gave him a helping hand trying to move his legs and cross it. Then I put his hands on the knees. He was doing it without any resistant. I was amazed by this. I didn't push him at all but he is the one that want to try for it.

When I said close the eyes but he did't want it. That's fine for me.

After that we have some fun time together with yoga poses. In fact he is the one we leads the poses and it was funny. First he did the butterfly pose and keep flipping his hands in front of his chest. So I sang out 'Fly Fly Fly Butterfly' song while we moved our knees up and down. He enjoyed it very much and keep laughing. Then next I showed him sitted forward bend with both legs extended in front. I said raised up your hands up high, bend down and touch your toes. He was enjoying it too and we repeat if for few times.

It was really fun to see kids in yoga poses. It can be very fun and enjoyable if you know how to make it 'fun' & 'attractive' to the kids. Hope one day I am able to organize such classes to the kids and show to them yoga is fun to play with !



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