The travels.
| April Fools Day is over for us. The jokes came and went, and here we are on the tarmac taxiing for takeoff to Bali, Indonesia. Take off from our day in China, in Shaghai, in yet another airport. We aare definitely otnumbered and sleep deprived. I woke up once in the airport during our 8 hour layover and then once again to notice all the people gathered at our gate, boarding the aircraft. Thanks for waking up. That would not have been a good April Fools Day joke. Shanghaied in Shanghai. Night time here. Midnight on the tarmac. And we wait our turn which is now, The jets roar. The plane shakes, and a tighness flows through our body. We have awindow seat. “We got off the ground Mom!” No problem it seemed. No city lights of Shanghai yet. Maybe the city does not even exist. Only for us. “We can’t see anything!”” and she is right. All day we could not see the city of shanghai. We stared into the greyness of the environment. The people dressed for colder weather Colder shoes. Colder clothes. Colder. “No stars yet!” i am still tired . Faitgued. But at least I am not driving a road, and hopefully will go a year before driving again. Sleep comes easy. If I fast forward I arrive at where I am in Nyuh Kuning Ubud Bali Indonesian next to the soccer field. We are here. We finally arrived. The neighbors came over and welcomed us to house that will be our home for a month. Ebuthree, Putu, and Kadek. We are here and the children are restless. How do you say, “How do you say?” in Indonesian? The neighbor children Putu and Kdek came over to play and tried to fellowship and make things happen. The children all played together for a little while, but we are all so tired from our travels to arrive here at Eric’s bamboo tree house in the rain forest. All the candy that we used for bribes along the way during our transport is gone hopefully, Coming to this warm pace makes my cravings for sweet go way down. Way down. “Ezra came and pushed me.”, “Viena, you are doing a great job!” We had to complete all the VISA and immigration/customs paperwork for this place . Sort of scary. I don’t know why. Kinda of like a test of some sorts that you must pass in order to gain entrance into this land. Do i declare all the energy bars that I am bringing in. They are “food” and the application says “food”. I decided not to. Ezra found a toad under a rock. Viena found a frog in te shower. This morning Viena was so excited. Viena was so excited about food this morning. Early morning and already the temperature is hot. Ezra is passed out after waking us up early in the morning – a Balinese morning. Must have been 3 to 4 in the morning. Viena is so excited to have her pet dragon, her new hat and her new dress. All for cheap. We woke up and walked t the market in Ubud this morning. All for cheap, but then I think would I even be buying these items if I were another place back in the States. But she is happy. Ezra is going to the one that makes or breaks this travelling thing. How will world travel affect Ezra? They are working on the house next door. Hammer. Hammer. Hammer. Viena’s dragon just ate an ant. I could speak of the two dogs in the soccer field and why no one walks across the soccer field, but how scooters will drive on a perfectly trvelled walking path. How the world seems different. All of the Balinese people on scootters are wearing long pants and long shirts and a jacket or hooded sweatshirts – for sun protection? – in case of an accident? – for style? We ate for $6 yummy food. And that is all. We do this and we do that for a smile. The early morning market is the best. I do wish Ubud was a bit closer as the walk through the monkey forest lots of scooters and lots of Monkeys if you do not pay to go by the temple. The monkeys were following Ezra and showing their fang teeth. |
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