No word can describe the greatness of these beauties.
Back at it today! It's gym time. Mary-Kay, Carol and I worked on various things today. We also decided that we would start Silver Lining Crossfit here in Ubud to get seniors into shape (not actually lol). After our workout we got dropped off at Alchemy for our daily fruit bowl and juice. Once Jay scarfed down his breakfast, it was time for him to hop back into the car to be driven to the airport. He's off to Bangkok with his front row ticket to Jason Mraz's live acoustic concert. Bye bye Jay! Much love from your sisters! It was so great to spend time with you for the last 5 weeks, we're going to miss you.
We stayed at Alchemy for a little while, we ate our food, drank our juice, talked and waited for the rain to stop so we could walk downtown. We need to do some serious prepping, since tomorrow is the Balinese New Year and everything will be closed. We got some food for dinner, tomorrow's breakie and lunch then walked back to the Villa.
Their New year is called Nyepi (pronounced, "Ni-yep-ee") and it is a day of silence and meditation. The whole island of Bali is shut down, all businesses are closed and no one is allowed to use their vehicles, electricity or even get out of their home. Some even fast and sit in the dark all day, left with just their thoughts for 24 hours.
Statue contest.
Once back at the house Vee and I played cards and then around 4:30 PM we all walked back downtown to watch the Ogoh Ogoh festivities. The locals build these huge statue-like things and walk them trough the street all the way down to the football field where they're judged and awarded. It was quite interesting to see such a different culture from our own, our New Year doesn't really look like this Ha!
When the festivities were over, we made our way back and I cooked dinner for the three of us. Stir-fry with tempeh it is! It ended up being quite delicious for what I had to work with and now that our bellies are full it's time for bed!
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Vee, Carol, Novi and I decided that we are just about the worst Nyepiers ever. Not only are we not silent, we ate lots of food, hung out on the porch outside the house and we are having a dinner party for 8 with a Balinese chef cooking us food. Disgrace Ha! Oh well, we appreciate and respect what they're celebrating but at the end of the day were not Balinese and were not disturbing anyone!
Today literally only consisted of relaxing, getting fresh coconuts from the coconut dude and eating. After breakfast we hung out on the porch while drinking coconut water and eating coconut meat. Then Novi made us a Balinese lunch with the fresh spinach from the garden which was oh so good! Following lunch we watched the movie, St Vincent upon Jay's request then relaxed some more.
Dinner finally came around, everyone was here and having a good time. Carol had organized for a chef to make us a 4 course meal that we all enjoyed alongside great company. It just so happened that 7 out of 8 of us were canadian and 5 from kelowna, so weird yet so awesome! Dinner was delicious and for four plates of food prepared by a professional chef for only 12$, I'd say that's pretty darn good.
After some wicked conversation, lots of stories told and laughs had it was time to end Nyepi for us! We out!
A bientot,
Janelle Brine
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