Bali Trip – 22nd April 2010 – Day 11
Yahoo, sunshine today. We had breakfast outside overlooking the beach & watched the peddlers try to sell their wares to the tourists who walked past.
Off to Waterbom park this morning, we hailed a taxi & it took around 3/4 hour as traffic was heavy due to a fire in the middle of Kuta. We handed over our entrance tickets & were given an E-bracelet ( you pay money & it electronically calculates what you have spent – acts as a credit card because they don’t use other currency in the park. We hired a locker & towel & headed out. The grounds were really beautifully – green & lush with pools kept in immaculate condition. We found 2 banana lounges near the pool bar & claimed them, then were off to try the boomerang ride, Brendan & I rode together, 5 flights of stairs later we hopped on our double tube & went down – going round & round ,then a steep drop which flicks you over to another slope much like a ski ramp. Brendan & David then went on this again, then Brendan was ok to go by himself. Next ride the Boogie, you lie on a mat & slide down the ramp.
Then the Macaroni & River raft, this one finished at the lagoon where you could float around the circuit in the tubes.
Brendan made a friend – Jarrad from Perth & went off, with him, doing all the rides again.
We left at 2.45 when our taxi driver returned to take us to Batuan. I wanted to go back to the art gallery to see if we could bargain for the painting we liked ( hadn’t seen any others around which we liked as much) we eventually found the correct gallery only to find the picture already sold. We stopped at another 4 galleries on the way back, but there was nothing that interested us. We stopped off at indo-graph for David to pick up his signs & went back to the hotel, paid our driver 150,000rp. He gave us his card in case we come back to Bali again. 
His price was really good, as we had asked a driver out front of the hotel earlier & he had said 400,000rp & would not negotiate lower.
Brendan had a quick swim before we set out for tea. We decided to go back to Petite Cafe, they had nice food & Wi-Fi. We had garlic bread, Lamb curry, Mexican chips & dip, Weiner Snitzel, David also had cappuccino & fried banana with ice cream, drinks, all for $220,000rp,
We stopped off at the convenience store opposite the hotel & got Brendan a heart ice cream 4000rp before going back to our room.
