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Indonesian cooking class
This morning, we had a cooking class we schedule through Airbnb experiences with Made. We had taken 2 cooking classes in Thailand which were amazing, so definitely had expectations. We were picked up after 8am and taken to the market by a driver who wasn’t super engaged or involved. There was another driver with another…
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Painting class in Ubud
Today, we took a painting class sponsored by Toya Salts. (Cost $99 for all 3 of us). We arrived at the store, and waited a few minutes for the owner (Toya) to drive us to the studio. This woman is amazing—she is Indonesian and told me she was a single mom in NYC from the…
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Ubud tour—3 temples, art market and monkey Forest Ubud round 2
We had another Wayan day today. I’m super fond of him—he is so gentle and patient with my kids, and just a great calm presence. We did a tour of 3 temples near Ubud to start. I’m definitely “templed out” by now. I never got templed out in Thailand though I thought I would because…
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Spiritual experience in Bali
As you could tell from my blog, yesterday was not a good day overall. Which is fine. We all have days where things go sideways. When I went to bed yesterday, I knew I wanted to use today as a reset. I had our nanny from 7am to 1pm and decided to use most of…
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Snorkeling the Blue Lagoon and more on why I really don’t love Bali!
It was quite a day. I texted wayan from Bali inspirations yesterday to verify our pick up time and he did. Then this morning I texted again telling him to let me know if he arrives before 815am as we were ready. That’s when he told me, sorry, it’s not him, it’s his friend “Juice”…
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2 weeks in and more thoughts on Bali
We hit 2 weeks in Bali yesterday. Today was a chill day. We had our nanny 7am to 1pm. I ran 3 miles using the 0.05 mile path between villas here. 2 days ago, I ventured out determined to figure out how to get to the rice paddy path I can see from our villa…
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Rafting the Ayung river
Today was our rafting adventure day on the Ayung river. This trip was highly recommended to me and I read that it was class 1 and 2 rapids, so safe(r) for the kids. That having been said, I was still quite nervous as I was still traumatized from my only rafting trip ever—in Costa Rica…
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Monkey sanctuary in Ubud
We went to the monkey forest in Ubud today for family photos booked through Flytographer, which is a company that helps you find local photographers for vacation shoots. Bayu, our photographer, was super fun with the boys. He said he was impressed that I traveled alone with 2 kids; that he had one 3 year…
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Long day of touring North Bali
We had quite a long day today—left our villa at 730am and returned at 615pm, though admittedly the last 45 minutes of that was sitting in gridlock traffic in Ubud in the last mile before our Villa. I both enjoy and despise these long days of driving to see places. Enjoy because it’s really quite…
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