Highlights of Bali (Part 2)

Hello guys, John here bringing you the second blog of the highlights of Bali and I realized that I had forgotten some really awesome days and moments in Bali, There will be one, two or three highlights only but don't worry, they are the big ones and I hope you enjoy. 

First highlight is the monkey forest, if you ever follow my mothers Facebook or her social media you probably already know about this place, well for those who don't know it a forest filled with monkeys, who attack you if you have food... Did I mention there are no cages,  it literally is a hands-on experience... Get it? HANDS ON XD, monkeys have opposable thumbs XD, good one John... Anyways I have a couple of crazy pictures but long story short... If you have food they attack, if you have no food they sit next to you, if you stay still you're their new jungle gym, so basically to avoid stuff like this, don't bother showing up cause they throw hats and your bags, search your pockets. 

Anyways moving into the next highlight, the Balinese bird park, and I know what your saying... There a lot of animals in this blog but don't worry because there is one more highlight after this. Anyways so while we were in this bird park you would probably expect to see a lot of birds... NO, but on the other hand you did get to see a lot of birds so yeeeeeah. We all really enjoyed ourselves here because the birds were so friendly, one of them would bend right over so that you could scratch the back of his neck and when he would slowly go back up with a straight gaze at you and his hair stand straight up... Talk about a geek right? Anyways I can go on for days about this amazing bird park but we're on a tight schedule here people! 

Last but not least for the highlights of Bali we shall talk about the amazing snorcheling, beautiful coral reefs and sea creatures to roam those vast seas and to enlighten your eyes through the goggles.... Deep I know. My favourite sight underwater was this huge Stupa (temple) that was completely under water and inhabited by all sorts of sea creatures, I swam around there for 30 min gazing at that beautiful sight... Until I got spooked by the fact that my father saw a jellyfish in the distance (A Stupa is a smaller version of a Balinese temple). Well that wraps up everything for Bali and more room for Australia next time. This has been John and is officially signing out.

Highlights of Bali (Part 1)

Hello guys, John here bringing you only one blog of Bali and even though we've been in Indonesia for a month I think I should hurry up and get to the good stuff, but it's not all bad as I will be talking about all the highlights of Bali.  We not only stayed in Bali but went also to the Islandnof Java where we visited the temples of Borobudur and Prambanan as well as Yogyakarta and also travelled to Lombok and stayed on the very remote Gili Islands - Gili Air to be so specific.  

To start it off let me just say that I learned how to surf by the way, I mean not like a pro but I got to learn how to do it with the help of this company called Up 2 You surfing school.  Elizabeth and I signed up and we picked it up pretty quickly... But there was pain all around and that wasn't good :(.  Surf board rash is a real thing.  I pretty well did not have any fingertips left by the end of day three and had to take a break to recover!  Surfing was tough but fun as well the swell was huge at Legian beach were we had the lessons.

Next highlight might not be big to some of you guys but it's pretty small enough not to mess with your temper, I found 1$ Pokemon card packs all through Bali and I made some pretty cool profit of of them pulling 10 dollar cards from some of these packs, remember that I get to choose what goes into these highlights 😈. 

My next highlight is when I discovered this local chocolate company called Pod, basically it's now my favourite chocolate company as it produces the best chocolate in the world (My opinion).  Local to Bali and single source cocoa.  They combined interesting flavours and like green tea, ginger, cardamom, lemon grass, sea salt and it all tasted the absolute best.  I didn't find this chocolate everywhere in Indonesia but it was heaven when we did and I went all out on it, you gotta try some if your readings this... Real Indonesian cocoa bars :D, MMMMMMMMMH! 

My next highlight is a bit weird because it talks about the airport, the Balinese airport is so nice and I wanted to stay there all day even though it had nothing to do with the area itself, i don't know but I think it had something to do with the lack of order, civilization and technology but it was all good cause we went there 6 times :P! 

My final highlight as I am running out of time we had a really great time, Indonesia in general was amazing and beautiful when it comes to their culture and sense of humour, it's all good. I have to say that their food is really really good, they specialize on the chicken satay with peanut sauce, also I had the chicken cordon blue which has nothing to do with Bali... I was hungry okay 😭😜. But until next time where I think I will have another part of these highlights blogs of Bali because... I mean... We were there for a month and there isa lot more, but this has been John and is officially signing out! Just a to let you know these highlights are not in order there just the highlights that come up from the top of my head and then I right it down, it's a bit all over the place as the next part will be. 😝

Universal studios

Hello guys, John here bringing you the following up blog of signapore which is getting to the exciting part. Even though I am really behind and forgot a lot about the actual experience, I'm sure you'll have a blast reading this. Anyways without a further ado. We wake up in the morning rise and shine at a very early time. We drive for a while and reach the entrance point of the studios with the big EarthLike ball with the words universal studios printed in a 3D form like letters. We see this in the movies all the time so I knew we were gonna have a blast, it's much bigger than you'd expect... Scroll down the entire blog and view the picture of me standing in front of it :D. We step in and the first thing that comes out of my mouth is 'Wicked!', Elizabeth says another witty thing like 'is good'. But apparently we were pressed for time and mom shimmied us as fast as she could because apparently the rides get really busy and that we should do them first thing! Our first ride was a 4D transformer ride that almost made me have a heart-attack, my heart was pounding so hard after and as you could tell we we're first in line. Our next ride was the 2nd fastest roller coaster in the world. And oh my god was that ever a kicker, as we escalate and rotated side to side I could feel my cookies rising from my stomach, luckily... I survived! Next ride was the return of the mummy which was from the movie 'Mummy' oh yeah I forgot to mention where the rides was from which movie from the last two, first one was Transformers and the second was battle-star galactica. On too the third, and it was pretty scary with jump scares, pitch black roller coaster action and a creepy animatronic feel too it... Oh yeah and we got covered in bugs from the actual movie scene if you remember that. Next ride was supposed to be the Jurassic park one but it was closed at the time, I'm going to fast forward and tell you what happened when the ride oppened as it kinda makes more sense. When the Jurassic park water rafting ride opened (From the Jurassic park movie... Duh!!) there were plenty of signs saying that we would get drenched, mom got a pancho and me, Elizabeth and dad were all brave enough to go without one. Off we go in a huge raft with a couple of other people, dinosaurs everywhere but then it always goes to the bad side when eventually throughout the ride we almost got eaten by an enormous t-Rex, it was all worth it in the end even though our lives were on the line, it was all worth it because dad was the only one in the end to get wet, soaked in fact!!!! XD. Next ride... Wait I think I forgot to tell you that dad and mom were both nice enough to get express pass for the entire family which I have to admit was pretty nice on there part, we also got to have maximum fun that way and it was all worth it in the end :D! Anyways our next ride is another raft but a bit more on the tropical side and it comes from the Madagascar movies. We basically sit on another raft but this time we don't get wet :D. It takes place in the huge boat that was suppose to transfer the main characters to a new zoo but eventually crashed into an island and got stranded there. It as really cool because it was all done with animatronics and it was really creepy especially when I was playing the game five nights at Freddy's on my iPod to pass the time in the express line. It was all good in the end because mom goes crazy for Madagascar with the penguins, king julien and mort. That was our last ride and obviously we did all of them over and over again but when me and Elizabeth went back to the battle star galactica ride, we noticed another ride, and it was actually the fastest... 1# fastest roller coaster in the entire world. We obviously hope on and oh boy was that a hell of a ride with upside down loopy loops and side turns I even through a bit of my cookies up when we got off. We did that multiple of times and then we got to actually enjoy the actually studios itself when the lines got busy enough. All of the pictures will be listed below but as you could probably already tell , we all had a great time in signapore. By the time we actually got back we were all pooped out. But until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out. Pictures below⬇️!