26k in 24h. Sweet meat.

The Bali Hyatt was more luxury than we could handle, so we decided to check out after 72 hours of pure bliss (topped off by a massage at the spa, happy Christmas me!!! thanks oli.)and headed down the road for more budget accommodating accommodations. We booked a bus to the ferry terminal for the following day, hoping to arrive in the Gillis by evening. Well, that didn't exactly work out, and we booked passage through a shady ass company that promised the journey would take 5 hours total. The first ferry took that long, and we found ourselves with 3 other travelers on a broken down bus. It took 2 hours to hop along the road until they dropped us off in Sengigi for the night. Awesome. They wouldn't even drop us at our hotel! We went out to eat with Brooke, Jeff and Joao at a local place and passed the evening relaxing on our unexpected stopover. We were picked up a bit late, grabbed 3 more tourists along the way, and barely made the 10(actually 11) ferry. They refused to send us to Gilli Meno, where we wanted to stay, and ended up on the party island, Gilli Trawagan. We still have had a blast here, staying and diving with Blue Marlin, eating fantastic food, enjoying the sun. So nice! Evening beers at one of the many many bars, dodging local workers in the bar who want to sell us copious amounts of Magic Mushrooms, which they promise will send us to either the moon or heaven. Still, we passed. The diving has been great, at shark point we saw lots of sharks, turtles, eels, and on other dives have seen great rays and some huge fish. The current is a bit heavy at times, but its still amazing. Today we are off to Gilli Meno on the island hopper. We promise to update a bit more often in future, but the net here (not to mention the keyboards!) leave a bit to be desired. Pix to follow once we reach the shore. Love and kisses.