DAY 20: UBUD BALI
The days are moving by fast now. We have two more weeks. We were going to walk through the rice fields early in the morning but a big dark thunderstorm was brewing on the island ready to unleash a downpour – nad we have seen a Bali downpuor before. April is supposedly the tailend of the rainy season. We had some great down pours that first week were here. No rainbows. the second week has been fairly dry until this morning. I did not want to be in the middle of the rice fields when the rains came. So we waited and the rains fell. And when the trains were finished we packed our bags and headed to the post office through the monkey forest. At the other side of the monkey forest we caught a taxi for $2 that took us to the post office. We mailed off postcards at $1 a postcard and then went to the Buda Bali health food store conveniently located across the street from the post office. They had fresh bread, bagels, pretzels, loaves of banana bread, pumpkin bread, white bread, and wheat bread. After not eating bread for a couple of weeks, we went bread crazy. We loaded up the backpak and started our way home through some new streets of Ubud. I was trying to show Dwana some of the stores on the other streets of Ubud. We found a few less crowded streets and ate our bagels with cream cheese on the foots steps of a temple. Ezra was running out of steam quick, so I took him while Dwana and Viena lingered in some of the shops. Ezra and I found a group of boys playing in one of the tiled open air temple spaces across from the main temple – Temple Pusa Desa of Ubud. The small boys were excited to have a bulai – foreigner – tourist – to play keep awy from with a soccer ball. Ezra was the monkey in the middle until I joined him. The boys really enjoyed themselves with the simple game of keep away. Their play and laughter is so genuine and so great to be around. Dwana and Viena caught up with us and we walked around the Monkey Forest were Viena befriended a small monkey who poked Viena’s toes through her Crocs.
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