Bali, Indonesia

We decided to take one last vacation before leaving Taiwan to move back to the US. We chose to go to Bali as we had heard lots of great things about it and we could get a direct flight. Lizzy fell in love with the resort when we arrived and we were greeted by dancers. Every time she saw them she would ask them to dance for her and they would comply and give her a flower.


We loved the resort to and planted ourselves in a "pod" on the beach everyday.



We relaxed, buried each other in the sand, built sand castles, swam in the ocean, people watched, and bartered for souvenirs. It was a great beach for kids as the water was really calm, fairly shallow and the sand was soft. Once a day the tide would go out. We took advantage of it and walked out to see starfish, sea enenemies and other sea life.

We also enjoyed the pool. Liz loved jumping into the water and swimming to her "house" which was located under a bridge. James also loved the water and could not wait to get into it everyday. He loved the kiddie pool where he didn't need to be in his floatie all the time. A 10 minute walk from the resort was a little town in the Nusa Dua area that had shopping and a lot of restaurants and cheap massages. Adam and I took turns after dinner while the other one took the kids back to the hotel to go to bed.

(our favorite part of this picture is the guy in the background stripping down to his speedo)

Our fourth day in Bali we rented a car and driver to take us around the island. It was beautiful. It was very green and lush. We checked out Ubud which is famous for painting, stopped at the most beautiful rice terraces I have ever seen (Tegalalong), checked out a place where they grew every type of spice, and had lunch overlooking a volcano. Our plan for the afternoon was to see a temple and other stuff, but the heavens decided to open and it poured and poured. It was raining so hard that you could see newly formed rivers running down the hills and some of the roads became flooded. Needless to say, we skipped the temple and just saw a handicraft center where they gave demonstrations on how to make these beautiful pictures with wax and showed us how they used a loom to weave their own cloth.

Besides that, the only other time we left the resort was to see a turtle farm and go on a glass bottom boat.

We loved our trip. It was so relaxing and we had so much fun with our kids. When can we go back?

To see a full set of photos from the trip click here: Bali Slideshow