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The Little Differences

Friday, November 25th, 2005

1. You have to ask for your check
2. When the check comes, you should be ready to pay because the waiter will stand there and wait for you until you give them their money
3. A Cat Oven is a place to have your car painted
4. Pack of smokes $0.70. Bottle of beer $0.50
5. If you don’t have exact change (say you’d have to break a $1 to give 25 cents) they won’t make you pay it
6. The McCafe is everywhere. The McDonlands version of Starbucks. not bad
7. The Crawfish, Egg and Mayo sandwich at McDonalds, rice balls instead of French Fries
8. The pace – frantic like NYC
9. Starbucks doesn’t open until 8 am, doesn’t close till midnight
10. Shopping, shopping, shopping everywhere in Hong Kong
11. Prices on “Undesireable items” – pack of smokes is $11 bucks
12. The subway is IMMACULATE. could eat off the floor
13. More malls than you can count in Singapore
14. Thais’ favorite saying “Same, Same” meaning what you are about to pay for is the same as what you really want. (it never is)
15. almost all “cheese” in SE asia is Velveeta
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Breathing Underwater – Lembongan

Friday, November 25th, 2005

We finally did it! After years of saying we would try Scuba, we finally did.

What an amazing experience!!! We took a ferry from Sanur, Bali to a small Island about an hour away (east) called Nusa Lemgongan. First, let me say that the island was amazing. Small, friendly, laid back etc. A great place to go to get away from the hectic pace (and I use that term quite loosely) of mainland Bali. I highly recommend the place we stayed as well. (Linda Bungalow, can’t miss it, to the left when you get off the boat, the only building with a blue roof). Our room had a great 360 view of the sea, palm trees, and sea weed farms!!

Not much to do on Lembongan except RELAX and DIVE.

We used the World Diver Dive Center. John and Sue were great! We felt as comfortable as humanly possible considering we were trying to breath like fish.

For those of you who have done it, you’ll understand how difficult it is for me to describe it. Needless to say, swimming and breathing with the underworld is unreal. Felt like I had been written into FINDING NEMO (not that I’ve actually seen it)! Our first “dive” was about 35 minutes of non-stop action. I call it a dive but it was really our divemaster leading us around by our tanks while we gawked at the sights and tried to remember not to hold our breath! Scuba is a must do for anyone not petrified of the water, or fish.

Spent 2.5 days on Lembongan and enjoyed every bit of it. Also…finally saw some rain for the first time in a month. When it rains, it pours (couldn’t resist). It reminded me of the old days in Chicago with the monsoon like thunderstorms. I guess this really is the monsoon though!!

Only one backpack a piece?

Thursday, October 20th, 2005
This has been the $64,000 question! We've done a bunch of research, asked a lot of questions and taken plenty of verbal suggestions. As opposed to debating RTW packing philosophy, we will simply list the stuff that we left ... [Continue reading this entry]