2/7/10 Sunday. Hot Coffee and Hot Springs

Every cartoon has taught me that roosters wake up at sunrise, crow once, and then they're done. This is a lie. Huge mondo humungo LIE. The 3 million roosters that lived around us in Ubud start crowing at the tip top of their lungs non-stop from about 4:30 AM to maybe 10ish. During that time the ducks like to play the "I can be louder than you" game. The ducks sound like a pack of old men laughing, which caused me and Steff to burst out in exhausted/half asleep/this is so ridiculous - laughter.

We met our Australian friends for a mini adventure with Agoose (sp) the van driver. First stop: coffee/cocoa plantation. So neat. We knew we've lived in New York too long when we were amazed by every plant we saw. The workers poured us samples of their fancy coffee (Steff tells me it was good), ginger something, hot coco, and hot coco with ginger (Which was really.. Really.. Really.. Good). Before heading out, they let us feed giant bats fruit. They were so cute we wanted to squeeze them to death.

Next stop: hot springs. Lovely afternoon? Yes! Worth the time and money to go to a swimming pool style hot spring? Not so much. We had a great time playing with the underwater camera though. Steff and I also discovered that we are really and truly horrible at taking under water photos.

Final stop: a view of the volcano. Our grand idea was to go trekking around the volcano, forgetting the rainy season might put a damper on our plans (get it.. rain.. damper.. ha!). The view from where we were was incredible though. We took 5,000,000 pictures and bought some saboo (sp) fruit. Success.

That night we left the boys to take in a little Balinese dance in Ubud. Super neat. Great costumes the orchestra played (from what we could gather) really fancy shoe horn xylophones with pick ax hammers. The dances were small graceful movements, while looking VERY surprised.

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