Selamat Tahun Baru 2007!!

i know i know i know...
I have been in bali 10 days and this is my first posting!!!!

Today is January 1st 2007 - selamat tahun baru (happy new year).

Ok small recap - arrived in Bali on 23rd of December 2006, for 23 nights. Staying at MBR (again) but this time we got the suite rooms beside the little back pool (there are 3 pools here) and the rooms are awesome (must remember room numbers for next time 170-171-172).

Kids mastering the Selamat Pagi/Siang/Sore/Malam and their apakabahs and the local staff are really impressed by their Bahasa.

Xmas day was great - by the pool and had a deluxe pedicure (1.5 hours and a cool $11). MrMadejerry picked up Leeny and brought her to the hotel (she is in room 170 beside us). 26th had a massage by the pool (a cool $9) and cocktails all day (fresh lime juice with pineapple and vodka - not too many creamy ones. Every morning i have been up early and done my huffy puffy (walking for about an hour or so) - I mostly go up to Seminyak and have been up as far as nearly Kerobokian each day. Today is another story though as its a big big downpour and I have kepala sakit (headache from drinking last night!!)

Been shopping and got some dvds which today when its raining come in super handy, got some pants made at the tailor and bought some shoes and clothes for the kids and safi has scored the bestest every fairy dresses (about 6 in total including a little mermaid style one and a cute buzzybee one - complete with Stinger). Safi has watched garfield 2 about 300 times and loves to sing some dodgy song from it. The first few days the hotel was inundated with bogans with bad behaved kids (who allows their kids to go nuts with beebee guns ???) dickheads. But thank god most of them went home before NYE.

Speaking of bogans there is this attrocious woman from melbourne who is here with her 14yo - who she is allowing to knock back cocktails and smoke her holiday 50s by the pool. MDB - mums drinking buddy - so dodgy - but its always entertaining to watch Bali Bogans - at least she hasnt picked up a kutacowboy to go with it...

Restaurants we have done and loved - SeaSIDE...loving it, Warung Yogya YES....and lots of other little ones along the way - oh have done Kuta Maccas for the fried chicken!!.

did a massage up the road at padma day spa which was good and tomorrow I will have another by the pool here at my hotel - i love bali...i so love bali and mick is talking about doing xmas again here next year (up until recently we only did xmas here every 2nd year - but I would love to do it every year)

so much more to tell - but to tell you the truth - i have been having so much fun - doing nuffin - its been awesome - infact I went like 11 days with out internet and didnt miss it..

so gotta find a way to be an expat here!!! new indo phrase i have learnt - mungkin lagi (maybe later) Kids did Quicksilver swimschool instead (cause its near the hotel) and love it - now they go up every 2nd day to hire surfboards and are becoming real pros

will be doing some more touristy things (like atb and monkeys etc) after the 5th of Jan

will jump online and update laterer...

so love bali..