Tina's wanderings around the world

Day three. Wake up at 5am again. Lay in bed until the sun rises. Get up and wander. Eat breakfast at Biku with the Shodas (excellent food and teas!). Get a personalized Indonesian tea ceremony when Bethany orders the right tea. Wander around Seminyak for a bit when Laura and Seth join us. Decide we're going to go to Tanah Lot for the day and split up to see who can haggle for the best transportation cost. (Shodas win.) Reconvene and take the trip to Tanah Lot.     And in this lovely site, some other tourists (local tourists?) wanted a picture with our youngest (and obviously cutest) tour group. The Balinese LOVE children. When we got back to Seminyak from Tanah Lot, Bethany and Evey got invited into a spa so they could wash off their feet. (Our feet were disgusting. And we were ridiculously sweaty. In fact it should be mentioned that this was one of the hottest days any of us have ever experienced, and we all had a solid sheen of sweat covering ...

In the last two and a half years, I haven't had a single overseas trip. Until last month, when we trekked to Bali for perhaps the greatest adventure of all--our wedding. We got engaged last year on January 24th, our 7 year anniversary. We headed up to Vancouver for the weekend with plans to go snowshoeing. Last year was unseasonably warm and when we got to the gondola at Squamish we discovered that there was, in fact, no snow. Instead of snowshoeing, we had a quiet walk around the trails. In addition to the lack of snow, we were also inundated with classic Pacific Northwest weather--cloudy and overcast, blocking out any potential views we would have. We arrived at a lookout point and found ourselves face to face with pure fog. Here's a poster we saw later of what it looks like on a clear day. And the one view we could see. I turned to take a picture of the one mountain outline we could see and when I turned back around, Marcus was down on o...