Karen's Dangling Conversation

So, here we go, we all got in the car for our road trip today.  My nephew is getting married in Vegas and all of us plus Jacob (another nephew) and minus Brad (my husband) took off for the slightly warmer state of Nevada!  Road trip! We were supposed to leave at three and we were having a record time and everyone was in the car at 3:20pm, I started the car and then Mackay said he had to go poo.  Okay, I know, TMI, even for me.  But thems are the facts fellahs!  Close so close.  Anyhoo, we finally made it to pick up Amanda from her college apartment and when she got in the car she had a really good story to tell us.  I’m going to tell it to you because I loved it on so many levels. She said she was at the library studying the other day and starving and so she headed over to the vending machines.  She plugged in her money and asked for some trail mix and low and behold it got stuck on the way down.  So as she put it, she went an...

The children were so beautiful there.  I wanted to take so many more pictures but I didn't want to be rude!  So I would try to snap them on the sly! These little entrepreneurs were hilarious!  We finally just paid them cause they were so cute! Chicken on a stick.......I think? The Volcano The most amazing fruits! This one was rattlesnake fruit!  Yummy! Massage time!  Yes Please!  Amazing massages for very little money! Mosquito netting included A beautiful veranda where we spent most of our time The doorway to our bungalow Beautiful gardens everywhere

Bali  Finally to Bali......the place I wanted to visit.....the instigation of the entire trip.  It seemed like it took forever to make it to Bali.  I just have to pause and say here that Indonesia was so different than I pictured it.  No one could have prepared me for this world that is like a step back in time.  I guess it is the sheer number of people in Indonesia. Over 229 million people living on various islands.  Seeing rows and rows of houses, some big, some small, some hovels, some sturdy and new.  Every 4 inches there is a store of some kind.  Vegetable and fruit stalls everywhere.  I couldn’t imagine enough people anywhere to buy all the wares that are for sale in Indonesia.  Every where you look there is someone sweeping something, much of the time it is just the dirt in their driveway.  Neat piles of wood, perfect rows of rice line every rice paddy.  Why did I feel like I was always in the middle of complete chaos...