Bali Trip – 20th April 2010 – Day 9
Yes raining again, it hadn’t let up all night. We had breakfast & decided we would taxi it in to Kuta, as we hadn’t been there yet. 
The taxi ride took about 10 minutes & cost 30,000rp. As we got to the entrance a man came up to us with a promotion, we opened the ticket, I won a T-shirt, Brendan got a free Waterbom park ticket & David could win $1000, all we had to do was go for a 1/2 hour drive to Nusa Dua & listen to their sales pitch. We said ok as it was still raining heavily & we hadn’t been to that part of the island. We didn’t even get to see the hotel, it was for members only, like a time share thing & cost $A8000. Of course David didn’t win with his ticket. We were taken back to Centro, the shopping complex, where we were originally & continued to have a look around. David looked at Oakley sunglasses but they were similar prices to home & in the centre they do not bargain. 
We had lunch on the top floor food court at a place called Lada, Chicken satays’ all round. Note to anyone coming this way .do not use the toilets…extremely dirty! We finished looking around & as the rain had stopped walked the beach way back to the hotel.
On the way we saw a Balinese ceremony, where hundreds of Balinese were dressed in white, Chanting & walking down the street from the beach. We stopped at the Hard Rock Cafe for a picture of Brendan with the Big Surf Board, he was a star, once we had taken his picture, 5 other tourists ( Japanese etc ) wanted photo’s with him as well.we should have charged!
A Balinese taxi driver grabbed David’s arm and tied a leather bracelet onto it, and said it was free & for good luck. Brendan has it now ;-).
It took us about 1/2 hour to get back, we showered & went back out. We found the printing place & ordered 1m2 x 1m2 of signs ( Disney on Water etc ) for the boat costing 185,000rp. Back to the hotel for a change of clothes, & walked the streets to find a restaurant that we could all eat at. We eventually found Sheppy’s, in Mellasti St, & at 9.30 we were really hungry, we had an entre of garlic bread, main’s – hot dog, nachos, parmagana & desert – ice cream, crepe with orange sauce & fried banana with ice cream, plus drinks for 180,000rp, after tea our waiter bought out around 300 DVD movies for us to go thru, we ended up buying 10.
On the way back to the hotel (all the shops are open really late) Brendan & I decided to have a fish therapy treatment ( it looked interesting & we had never tried before), you put your feet into a tank with 100’s of small fish which eat the dead skin off you, yes sounds really gross.it felt like placing your feet over a spa bath jet – really tingly. We stayed with our feet in the water for around 1/2 hour – 150,000rp. & as we were just out on the footpath we had various tourist stop & ask us questions about how it felt. Our feet & legs were really smooth when we finished & the tingly sensation stayed with us for a long time after.
