The Terrific3 travel blog

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I had a “me day” today. Nanny was here from 730am to 3pm. I ran 3 miles, walked to The Yoga Barn for a Pilates class, had leftover lunch without needing to be interrupted, had a HEAVENLY 90 minute foot massage, and was able to drop our laundry off in peace and am now writing…

My day began at 1245am when Z came into my room and bed due to “bad dreams,” which seems to be a bit more of a trend lately. It meant he slept well in the comfort of mama, but mama got kicked most of the night. Oh well, these days are short. We planned to…

A woke up this morning to a decorated door. S and Z woke up quite early as I awoke to a balloon popping at 5:55am. I guess it could’ve been worse, and I guess I couldn’t be mad about the kids being excited about a birthday. S wanted a “quiet” day on his birthday and…