Airplane stories

Hello readers!

We are happy to report that last night we landed in Bali around 2:30a… of course this was after the very short flight of 16 hours (from DC to Seoul) and then a 7 hour flight (from Seoul to Bali).

In our flight from DC to Seoul we were lucky to have a fairly empty plane and we got to spread out and conquer seats for beds. Unfortunately, on our next flight, we weren’t so lucky.

However, we did have a pleasant, or not so pleasant surprise. A man approached Bethany and asked her for her window seat. She replied that we would be moving around and that he couldn’t have the seat. He wasn’t mad but continued to ask other passengers on the plane. After a short period he was on the other side of the plane to ask Jo if she had a guide for Bali. We didn’t. But he continued to ask us where we were from, where we were staying, if we were an all girls group, and gave us words of wisdom… “You can find love in Bali”. The girls were significantly creeped out.

Chris and Jo were in a close race to see who could watch the most movies (and sleep the least…though not by choice). Chris won with a total of 7 movies!

As we were landing Bethany leaned over to us and mentioned that if would be quite warm once we got of the plane… Little did we know…

Once we got off the plane, purchased visas and went through customs we were greeted with drivers. As we walked out of the airport, we were also greeted with sweat dripping from every pore. We literally walked a few hundred feet and we possibly had lost a pound of weight in sweat. We never had been so happy for AC. Thank you to whoever invented that.

As we pulled up to the hotel we were tired and yet so excited that we were actually there! Once we got to our rooms and figured out when to wake up for breakfast and we thought that we were going to get some sleep a loud screech was heard. What was that and why was it up?! Again, a screech. Ah… a rooster. How lovely. Did we have the time right? Yes, it was 4am. Then why in the world was this rooster awake and telling us to wake up as well. It stopped for a little. Again we tried to sleep… screech! Followed by a different screeching rooster, followed by another! Now there were 3 and they wanted us to wake up. Well, either we drifted into a sleep with the soft cooing of the rooster or you tossed and turned wondering when it would shut its beak up.

Our alarms went off a little to soon for most.

Breakfast was a great surprise! Cantaloupe, eggs, chicken sausage, fish, rice, fresh veggies and toast… YUMMM. But, not only did they have yummy food, but also we were on the top floor of the hotel with gorgeous views and an infinity pool (for those of you that watch house hunters; it’s a great selling point).

Well, off to spend a few hours in Bali.

Hope everyone is doing well. We’re doing fine, don’t worry!

Love, the world travelers