Swimming in Sanur

When you wake up at 6AM at home, dragging your butt out of bed to face the day is one of the toughest things to do.  When you are visiting a tropical paradise and you wake up looking at the jungle foliage a few feet from your face, it is quite a different experience. It doesn't seem so horrible having to face the day knowing that today you get to see the ocean, the Indian Ocean.  Almost forgot about that one...

We traveled through the traffic, which actually is reminding me more and more of a video game,  to Sanur, a town on the Southeast coast of Bali. It was a tough day today, a one hour massage for $5,  followed by lunch by the ocean, then a swim in the Indian ocean, then back for an hour facial for another $5.....exhausting.

Checked out a few shops, and got to see one of the little temples that seem to be everywhere. If you aren't careful, you may step on one of the small baskets called ‘canang sari ' that Balinese offer to their Gods three times a day.  They are filled with rice and fresh tiny flowers. It is basically a ritual of giving back what has been given to you by the Gods. It is a sharing that is not based upon fear, but on gratitude for the richness of life. Offering appeases the spirits and brings prosperity and good health to the family. It is considered a duty and an honor at the same time, and in Balinese perspective a very natural and almost logical thing to maintain a good relationship between people and spirits.  Very touching and to see the size of the flowers and the work involved in some of the displays is quite impressive.

We had a great dinner at an Indian restaurant where we all sat around discussing what to do for the following week while watching lizards run up and down the wall. Neato! Dragging my butt back to bed early tonight....Lord knows what is in store for tomorrow!