Bali - part II

This is the very last post from our trip.  Our kids did really well traveling.  They slept on the long flights and adjusted to the time changes coming and going very quickly.  We choose a place like Indonesia because we thought it would appeal to us and our kids, we were right.  Auburn is a piece of cake to travel with now and loved pretty much everything we did.  Conley was a little more difficult, but slept like a champ every night even though he had three new teeth come in on our trip.  It was nice to have so much Daddy time, especially since he is traveling so much right now.  Auburn really bonded with Simon and when he is home he has to help her with everything.  We feel so blessed to have good little travelers and to have these opportunities to travel and see the world.

Tegallalang Rice Terrace

We were really excited to walk through some rice paddies while we were in Bali.  It was so much more beautiful than in pictures, especially the terraces.

A couple was taking some pictures with balloons and gave our kids some when they were done.  What an awesome place to have your engagement pictures taken at!

Sayan Terrace

Sacred Monkey Forest

This is in Ubud, just a short walk from where we were staying.  There are monkeys everywhere.  Our kids were pretty excited about this.  We saw the monkeys fighting over food, grooming each other.  Auburn was especially excited about the baby monkeys.   On monkey jumped on Simon's back trying to get food out of our backpack.  Luckily, the monkey realized that he couldn't get to the food and jumped off quickly, but it was sure exciting for a few minutes.

Besakih

This is the mother temple for the Balinese Hindu.  It is right at the base of Mt. Agung and is really quite spectacular.  It is actually a complex of temples that you can walk through and explore.

Taman Tirta Gangga

This is a water palace.  The pools were filled with fish, much to the delight of our children.  It was also fun to walk on the stones in the pool.  

Around Tirta Gangga we walked through a few more rice paddies.

At the end of our trip we had to head back to Java to fly back home.  We had a day in Surabaya to kill so we went to the zoo.  There were tons of Komodo dragons.

In the morning they were taking these Orangutans for a walk.  They didn't actually touch our kids, but it was fun to see them walking around.  Auburn thought it was so funny that now she walks like an orangutan around our house.