Out of Candidasa, Into Ubud

Today was a sad day for us. It was our last day in Candidasa and our last day in the lovely cottages of Water Garden. We woke up to no alarm, got breakfast, then were off to pack up. It really didn't take very long since we didn't have any airplane rides to catch. We pretty much just stuffed everything in our duffles or backpacks in no organized fashion.

We met Ketut at 11:00 and after some hugs, handshakes and farewells with the workers, we were off. It took us about 1.5 hours to get to Ubud. A couple workers took our luggage and headed up the stairs. We followed them and were told to take a seat at one of the tables, where one of the workers brought us some welcome drinks, which were banana smoothies. We drank our smoothies and observed everyone, trying to take in the place.

A few minutes later, a few workers came up to us, told us to follow them and took our luggage to our room. Before getting unpacked, Montana opened the welcome book and started flipping through the pages. There were some possible activities suggestions that looked interesting to both of them. Arts and crafts seemed to be a big thing here, which is great since we both love arts and crafts. There was also some welcoming fruit that we wanted to try. We had seen a lot of it in the market, when we went to the market with Ketut a few days ago, but we had never tried it ourselves. One of the fruits in the basket was called Dragon Fruit. The others we don't know about. Both of us were very interested to try it. A few of the fruits stood out to us, especially the mango, but most of it was just okay.

We then started unpacking, or as much unpacking as we were going to do for staying for only 5 days. Montana got done pretty quickly, but as expected, LuRue took a bit longer, so Montana walked around and looked more at the activities book. It turns out, there's afternoon tea here from 3-6, so after unpacking, we decided to check that out. As promised, we were served a nice pot of tea and a little bit of Balinese cake (coconut wrapped in some sort of green dough). The tea was very bland and neither Montana or LuRue were too excited about it.

We walked up to the street and walked around a bit. We found some craft shops, restaurants, spas, but most importantly, we found a Gelato place. We decided to test the place out, so we each got a scoop of Gelato.

We headed back to the hotel to get changed into our swim suits. We decided a dive in the pool for a bit would be a nice treat. We both agreed that the pool was not as nice as the Watergarden one, but it was still nice to be in the water. The water was colder than Watergarden's pool, so we only stayed in for 45 minutes. This was a very odd pool, in that, when you looked at it from one point of view, it looked like it was 2 feet deep, but then when you looked at it from another point of view it looked much deep. It was almost an optical illusion. The pool sign read that it was 180cm (about 6 feet).

By this time it was dinner time, so we headed up to the street to go have dinner at the first restaurant we looked at. LuRue had some sort of pork and Montana had a Sate Ayam (sateed chicken). Both were very good. They then ended on an odd dessert of deep fried bananas with chocolate and cheese.