Well been so busy no time for BTF. Woke day 2 after a 12 hour sleep long overdue . It's amazing there is as much organization to go to Bali for 4 nights and 5 days as there is when you go for 3 weeks. Especially when you are escaping the husband and teenage children and taking your sister for her first trip to Bali to celebrate my birthday.
Day 2 all refreshed we headed to the Ramayana Dept store in Denpasar. Had not been there in the last 3 trips but was looking for a dress for my daughter who is on the outer limit of Balinese dress sizes now she is 15. Used to always go there when she was little as their prices are local and as luck would have it they were having discounts store wide for the Lebaran? Does anyone know if that is Ramadan or their national day?
Found her a lovely lace dress in burgundy fitted so let's hope it fits. Only $11.90 so no drama if it doesn't. Also grabbed her a fitted black skirt for work for $8.59. Fully lined and nice fabric
Then grabbed some girls hair stuff and iPod earphones, nail files etc in the sweet sixteen store. My sister grabbed heaps of stuff for the nieces birthdays. We were such big spenders. Haha everything was so cheap. Later found out the iPod earphones were 2pairs for $2.20 that's cheaper than eBay.
Upstairs to the handbag section my bug downfall. Not a lot of things fit me in Bali (joke). But handbags and jewelry do. So they are my weakness. Otherwise I am usually spending my money on my kids as you do. I know everyone will say buy the bags at the markets as they are cheaper there but honestly have done that over the last 10 visits including trips to Phuket and Malaysia. The bags in the markets dont last for me. There is something that always goes wrong either the lining or zips or handles break. I am really rough with them
Well I was looking for a nice clutch for my daughter got her a black satin one with a black and white bow in sweet sixteen. But hen saw a coral pink one for $11.90 so had to have that for her. Grabbed myself an orange stitched bag decent size for me and another orange clutch for me with a snakeskin effect. All the clutches have detachable chains.
Upstairs to the supermarket for a cold drink oh and really cheap schick mens shavers at the checkout .
A word of caution the toilets at the Ramayana upstairs where the time zone is. Unless you really can't hold it don't go. I would not let my sister in there after I had an inspection
That is a side to Bali she does not need to know about as so many nice toilets are around now. Next we headed to Mang Enking for lunch
Well I had read about this place somewhere probably here on the forum and another site not allowed to be mentioned starting with T quite some time ago. I had never got to it the last two trips. Recently I had found their Facebook page and worked out in my mind that I could use it as a lunch stop between Denpasar and Semiyak and Legian on our shopping trip.
We left Denpasar and with a hand drawn map for our driver Made off we went . I hadnt been that way before so I was hoping something would give me a hint of where we were . Long story short only one wrong turn down Jalan nakula a quick u turn and we found it. Mainly because I knew what the roof structure looked like as the numbers were all over the place along the road.
It way surpassed my expectations. My sister and I got to sit in the bales out over the water. You put your legs through a hole under the table and ther e is foot rest just above the water. The lakes have a number of these tables settings around them are full of koi carp and other fish. Plus there is more tables on dry land.
You can buy fish food for 30 cents and you should see the fish jumping over each other like they haven't eaten in weeks. Got some great shots of the lovely lake and the fountains.
After our lovely lunch at Mang Enking we braved the streets of Legian in search of the other item I always fit into no matter where I travel, jewellery. Heading into Legian I spotted Silverberry. We had shopped there in 2010 and I noticed it is now on the other side of the road. Well there stuff is amazing and it wasn't hard for me to grab a ring, two chains three sets of earrings and 4 pendants . Thank you in laws for the birthday money. I got so many items I now have a whole new look.
We wandered up and down looking for some clothes for my sister to take to Queensland on her conference but nothing grabbed us. We did however get some vans for my daughter at two thirds of the price we refused to pay back in December. A little more window shopping and we were done for the day. Back to our hotel to refresh and unload the shopping.
We felt as if we needed our hair washed and as the shower in our room was dodgy and the water supply unreliable we headed to Ayu spa they were shutting early and they wanted us to book for the next day. Too busy we said and headed down Jalan Pantai Sindhu until we saw Carla spa empty . My sister spied package 3 a creme bath and foot massage for 90,000Rp. Well we were in and it was the best one and a half hours I'll say.
All relaxed and squeaky clean hair we decided to have dinner at street cafe. The band was setting up and it was BBQ night we declined and ordered nasi goreng and seafood mie goreng. Was a bit surprised to find a caterpillar in my salad. At least it was pesticide free. As the band was good we ordered cocktails a mojito and a ......... We listened until the band had a break and then home to bed.
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