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Alicia and I at the caves.



A couple of the zillion naughty monkeys at the Batu Caves.



Alicia noticed these amazing lightposts in KL that are shaped like Hibiscus flowers.



A shot of lush green inside central Ubud, Bali.



It is very typical for Baliense home compounds and temples to have stone carvings (or made from concrete) representing protective deities from the Hindu pantheon. Here is one with some creepy eyes.


Typical intracite doorway.



Beautiful statue outside a temple.



Alicia and an interesting door. We are thinking this may be an expat's home.



Typical Ubud road.



There are rice paddies all throughout the town. Behind the paddy is a big expat home.



The creepy spider outside our room. My fully extended hand just might cover this scary thing. It has not moved since we arrived over a week ago.



Turkey dinner. The whiny people were right below us. Tempting me to dump some gravy on their heads.



A rare clear evening (constantly overcast here). Laura, you'd like it here - very few sunsets!



My favorite of the temple statues.



A man cutting down a tree, and then expertly cutting it into perfect boards outside our guesthouse. This guy was a super expert. The end product looked like it was out of a lumber mill.



A blurry, but funny shot of us in the Ubud Monkey Forest (part of a local temple). Over 400 macque monkeys live here creating chaos. We bought some bananas from some local women and then were attacked (sort of) by the monkeys. They make good use of their opposable thumbs in holding on to you. Alicia got quite a fright when they would not let go of her dress. The trick was to give them two bananas, one for each hand. This would cause them to let go and then you had to get moving. Very fun when they were well behaved and came up and nicely took a banana from you. The forest park itself is super beautiful and lush.



Warning: the monkeys are officially crazy!



Monkey Temple statue.



This Saturday there was a big free concert in the local football field. This was the event for everyone under 40, or so it seemed. The sheer number of scooters and people on the streets made it almost impossible to move. The entertainment was terrible (we witness a bad girl band) and the hosts from the local TV station made Alicia want to leave right away. We heard from people later that a local rock band was not so bad - but we didn't stick around. Other strangeness is that people here don't applaud, and young men wear their helmets around in the crowd to show off their scooter-possessing-status (or so we think). As Alicia hates it when people walk around with helmets on, this was a point of distress!