Bali 2011 Friday= Trip to Kuta, The Memorial, More DvD's

Woke early, no surprise there. The rain is very heavy. I woke several times during the night always to very heavy rain.
I wake up hubby trying to charge the laptop and find net access in the room but no luck with that. He suggests we to go to the beach but it's raining so we postpone. Seems a good day to explore Kuta. Maybe find a guitar strap with a Balianese theme, find the Kori restaurant in Poppies 2 were we are due for dinner tomorrow night, check out Poppies 1, maybe see some vaguely familiar sights from 20 years ago have another look around Garlic lane and see the memorial. And check out at least one large centre.  Discovery or Galeria.<sp>

We wander out and have breakfast then head back to the. Organise the boys for their day , at home base. Hooray for them. Show them how to use the mobile, give them instructions if anything to should happen
( hubby's idea), show them where the imodium and mylanta is. etc etc. Give them money for lunch which they will have at the Coffee shop.

Then it's off down the road, found out where our room neighbours go for massages. spoke to Ani. :) I will return and get brave enough for a first ever  foot and leg massage I think.
Down the road and round the corner as far as the Trophy Pub where we pick up a taksi to take us to Kuta.  Poppies 1. legian end we request.  20 mins later we are there. At least at Poppies that is but the beach end.
so we get out to walk the gang and head to the bali quilt place I'd read about on the Bali Travel Forum.

Trip, On meter cost $55, 400 Rp.  We wander along with Hubby half looking for a hawiian style shirt and maybe some more  billabong shirts.  Wandering along we get accosted to buy shorts so I say Billabong and there is a flurry. "Yes, Yes, we have billabong!" Soon hubby is embroiled  in some discussion over billabong t- shirts.  He comes out victorious. Prices are certainly better at Kuta but he has to watch the seller closely when he receives his change as the guy tries twice to give him the wrong change. 3 shirts for $155. 000Rp I take a couple of pictures with my camera and also a couple with my phone.

We walk further along and find Bali bedcovers and Guitars. Some nice guitars in the shop but the only straps are ordinary ones. I sense a market opening here.  Anyone?

  Out we go and head to legian. Turn left and cross the road. wandering at this stage but I know that further down is the memorial. (photos later) Time for a water stop.

We cross the road again and head up Poppies 2 to find Kori's and then really feeling hot we stop in for a juice and a coffee and a place on the same side of the road as Kos but closer to Legian. No idea what the place was called. But it was clean and cool. attached to some accommodation as well. the lady who served us was at least  6mnths preg.  very quiet. Sadly their coffee machine was not working. But we enjoyed our juice. Liked that they had a glass window where you could see their kitchen and them working in it.
saw a Circle K nearby but didn't like the look of it for money exchange. Back on to Legian and by this stage we were getting hot and sweaty. Found a Taksi and headed to Garli lane. Asked for Melasti street end but because of the one way system we told the driver to drop us at the Padma end.  Went passed the old bemo corner I remembered from 20 years ago and Kuta Kids. several times over the day.  (was wishing I had taken a picture of this corner all those years ago to compare. but I'm pretty sure I didn't) I'll have to dig out the photos when we get home.  We head up Garlic lane, really in need of Lunch by this stage but I'm determiend to  to get to the end first. hubby wanders along slowly , ovbiously less and less enthused. we stop at a dvd shop where  for 100, 000 you get 10 and 4 free. In Sanur it's 3 free. Called the boys to check on them.  With a struggle we find 14 dvd's. Zdown the road and neither of us can take the heat anymore. We jump into a taksi and ask to go to the Discovery  shopping center. So nice to be in cool aircon and wandering around. We decided to try the food hall after friends had suggested it.  Wasn't really our cup of tea.  I wish we'd had lunch back where we had the juice earlier. We were tempted by the New Zealand Icecream and had a small tub each. I scoop for 27, 000. This was the smae price as hubbys nasi gorenfg which looked prtty unattractiove. My ayam satay ( chicken satay) at least looked appealing, was tasty  and was 26, 000.  Had a quick gaze at breadtalk but  couldn't face anything there.
enough!
 Outside and into a taksi to come back to base.  Took a bit longer  than the morning trip due to the traffic and road works.  62,000 rp.

Found the boys in their room watchings Dvd's. Timne for a scotch and coke and read and rest for 30 mins.

Then its back to the coffee shop for cappucinos, youngest comes with us for chocolate cake and lemonade. The cafe is busy with the latest bus load of japanese/korean tourists having their afternoon tea.. We find a spot near enough to a power plug and enjoy our coffees.

I make a few posts on the BTF and begin this blog post.

 took a rest and uploaded phots then at 7.45 hubby insisted we have some dinner.
This was mine. I'd had a bit of the salad and about 1/4 of the snitzel by this stage. Chicken snitzel.  Delicious.

  45, 000 Rp plus tax.   for 3 of these plus a plate of chips, one coke, one lime juice, and 2 sprites with taxes the bill came to 222,915 Rp.
Hubby has gone for a walk. We've headed back to the room. Last year when he tried this he got offered all sorts of "interesting" things. I wonder what the offers will be this time.