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We arrived at Bali Hyatt Hotel in the evening, around at 9.30 pm. Our flight from Mataram to Bali had delayed for 2.5 hours. We planned to stay in Bali for 3 days. Firstly, we wanted to stay at Novotel Nusa Dua Hotel but the hotel already full-booked until August. Then we decided to stay at Bali Hyatt Hotel and got a good price.

Bali Hyatt Hotel, a classic Balinese style hotel, is located on the white sandy beach of Sanur which is called “The Island of the Gods”. There is a long path along the beach with large trees on the other side. The hotel guests or non-hotel quests use this path for walking, running, or riding a bicycle.




It is an old hotel with 36 acres of wonderful lush tropical garden surround the hotel. The gardens combine the natural greenery, colorful blooms, Balinese sculptures and waterfalls.




We spent our first day in Bali at Waterbom. Jerome had promissed to Zach that we were going to swim in the big slides. Zach really like swimming. The first sentence that came out from his mouth after he woke up was “let’s swimming in the big slide Daddy?” After breakfast, we go directly to Waterbom. The place was very amazing and very clean with beautiful gardens, great foods, poolside massage, water slides, kids pool, wall climbing, and water volleyball. This place is very good for a family with kids.

Zach was still too small for trying the big slides. We decided to try "Lazy River", wind your way through tropical gardens while reclining in a tube raft and feel completely relaxed while floating around the gentle rapids and cascading waterfalls.

The kids pools were amazing too. One of the kid pool had a big bucket on the top of tower that will be filled the water and when the bucket was full the bucket automatically will drop the water down to the pool. I really like it and tried many times to stand under the tower waited the bucket was full. Eventhough Zach was afraid when the bucket dropped the water, he really liked this pool. I think because this pool had many kinds of toys included cannons, slides, rope stairs, ect. Then we spent most our time playing at this pool and eating ice-cream. The sad thing was I lost my toe-ring that I had worn for two years. It was my favourite toe-ring.




Zach tried eurobungy and he was not afraid. After he tried the eurobungy, he proudly came to me and said "I am a brave boy Mom!". I really want to try the eurobungy and wall climbing, but once again I can not do kind those activities with 22 weeks baby in my belly. To make me feel undisappointed Jerome said "we'll come back again next year Honey!". He knew that I was really want to try specifically the wall-climbing.




Before we got back to the hotel, we went for early dinner at Ryoshi Sushi Restaurant in Sanur. When we go to Bali, we always make a time for enjoying sushi at Ryoshi Restaurant. The fishes are fresh and not expensive. You can find Ryoshi Restaurant in Kuta, Sanur and Ubud. We were really enjoy the food since we did not eat sushi for two weeks, when we were in Lombok Jerome was craving of sushi.




We spent our second day in Bali by enjoying sanur beach as part of the hotel. The beach was very beautiful with white sand. I love this beach a lot! We went swimming in the sea. Zach was afraid at the first but then he really like swimming in the sea after he got in the water.

We swam and played sand for hours until we were hungry. We had our lunch in the beach. We ordered lamb pitas, salmon sandwich, and breaded squids. The food performance was beautiful, simple, and disposable. Hm .. we were really enjoy our lunch on sanur beach.

After lunch, Jerome (of course after he read his book)and Zach fell asleep for 2 hours and I had spent my time by reading my book "Essential Volunteer Management". In the afternoon when the water subsided, I walked in the sea and sometimes did snorkling to see the sea-life under the water. The view was very beautiful and I could see clearly with my google. Suddently, I saw a sea-snake. That was my third time I saw a sea-snake when snorkling. My first and second were when I was in Flores. My heart beats became faster because nobody was there with me, I walked back to the beach. The sea-snake can suddently jump very fast and it is very dangerous.

After Zach was awake, we went to the kid playground. Jerome and I played a chess. A big chess! But I lost and Jerome was win! Then, we waited a sunset on sanur beach. Beautiful Sunset!




We had a late dinner at the Chinesse Restaurant called "Telaga Naga" (Dragon Lake). It was a very beautiful restaurant with beautiful chinesse and outdoor desain. We had steam fish curd, roasted duck, pok choy, and bamboosh. Once again, the food was very yummy. We ate all food.

Then, we walked a long the Sanur Road. I bought a beautiful painting. I like to collect paintings but never can not afford it. This painting's price was 3 millions, I bargained for 1 million rupiah. I thought that the lady won't accept my bargain. Fortunately, the lady agreed with my price. Finally I could buy a painting. I think, the painting will cost 5 million in Jakarta.

The third day, we just spent our time in the garden and our room. We had to check out from the hotel at 1 pm to catch our flight to Jakarta. When we checked out, we promised that we will back to this hotel soon. Jerome asked me to take another holiday in August and back to Bali Hyatt again. Hm ... I love too but should check with my schedule. Hopefully we will be back to Bali Hyatt again and spend more time on Sanur Beach.

Galuh, 10 July 2005 at 8.30 PM