Wooden Penii (plural of penis)

16/06/2012

The 2nd Day:

A beautiful 4 am start to the day (6 am in Australia, but still!). Already about 25 degrees... awesomeness. Went for a beach walk, saw the sun rise etc etc (hehe I thought it was written ect ect until I was marked wrong for it on a maths paper....) Breakfast: FREAKING AMAZING. I have never seen sooo much food in my life! The resort we were staying at was sooo totally made for the tourists... they had programs like water arobics! I was thinking how bored those old fat white Europeans must be to do water arobics for two hours, until I realized how bored I must be to be watching the old fat white Europeans do water arobics for two hours. (but hey! I was sunbathing... there was still purpose!)

Mum and dad found us our own driver, so at 1:30 we met Eddie, a 50 yr old father of 2 children and excellent english speaker (right) from Java. He took us to Seminyak, to the place we are now staying. All we did that day was go to a woolworths type place (forgot what they're called. Oh wait, its a supermarket! Right,  I knew that...) Everything is SO freaking cheap! There's this stuff called essential oil (awesome stuff) which costs like $20 for a little bottle in Australia, cost $1.50 here! And it included this nice smelling soap stuff and a wooden bowl! (too bad we couldn't buy it... can't bring wood back! Damn them!!!)

17/06/2012

The 3rd Day:

Now this is where it gets interesting....

In the morning we went on this awesome rafting tour:

With this crazy Balinese dude who kept steering us under waterfalls. After that we went to Ubud (awesome place, staying there tomorrow!) which is the artist village (woodwork, stone work, silver mainly). Well, if you can call it an 'art' village. I was casually looking around and saw some cool bracellets, when a lady basically pulled me off my feet. She shoved something into my hand. 'Umm, nice... ' I told her. I was confused; they were definitely key rings, and wooden, about the size of my finger. 'Great gift! For friends!' she told me in a strong accent. I looked again. Oh shit. In my hand lay about 7 wooden penises. 'For friend, for friend! Gift for friend!' 'Ummm.... thanks. I don't want, sorry.' 'No, no, have!! Only 5000 rupiah! Have have!'. That is the point where I ran away. Literally ran.