Hello hello,
It has been sometime since our last post and we re currently on one of the "Gili islands", located north of lombok, which is an island east of bali...a sampler location would simply to say paradise. After enjoying my birthday in our guesthouse pool in kuta surrounded by more Aussies and Swedes than i can count was fun, we decided to move a little inland to a village called "ubud". We were fortunate again to find a guesthouse with pool feet from our door, after many a stroll in town we would find ourselves with a nice afternoon dip to cool off.
The real draw of Ubud is that there is a patch of forest known as "the sacred monkey forest", basically it is home to about 300 macaque monkeys who will roam all over you if you let them. We of course took an afternoon to visit these little cheeky buggers. We arrive to find an entrance fee of 15,000 rupiah, which is roughly $1.75 and banana bunches for sale for about $2, naturally we wanted to feed some so we purchased our bananas and headed off. The first monkey we see if far in the trees and looks to be one of the larger males, he eyes us as we enter. Maeve eagerly waves the bunch in the air, and his eye is caught. He heads down the tree and heads towards us, maeve pulls one banana off the bunch and offers it to him...he sees it then lunges at the bunch, maeve startled, drops them and jumps away to see him make off with the whole bunch...hes big for a reason. Lesson learnt, do not taunt a monkey with bananas.
After enjoying a couple more nights in ubud we headed out for a 3 hour boat ride to the Gili's and we have been here ever since. The beach is gorgeous, the weather is amazing and the view back to lombok is the most beautiful we have seen on the entire trip. Needless to say we are taking the time to enjoy some peace and quite before we head to India in one week now.
I would like to say a big thank you for all the birthday wishes, Bali was not a bad place to spend it but missed everyone back home.
To the settino clan for the virtual "happy burds-day", than you very much,it was amazing. Maeve and i happened to be at a restaurant on the island that had wifi so we got chance to watch it on my ipod along with the videos of lyrik...ill give a big thank you to mr. gentile for arranging that, as next to my dad he is the most tech savvy of the bunch.
Love you all lots.
Time is flying by but crawling at once. We'll see you all before we know it.
jay/maeve
xoxo
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Nobody ever seems to have a good monkey experience. I recall MJ's simian tale at Jaipurs' monkey palace in India. They can be quite scary as they bare their teeth. Check your email for pics.
ReplyDeletehey hey we're the monkeys and people say we monkey around but we're too busy singing to put any body down.... that's the extend of my monkey experience. sounds like you guys have encountered the real deal though. The April weather today is gloomy and wet. we grow tired of this weather and long to be with Jay and Maeve in Bali. Missing you big time. Much love- hugs and kisses
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