Saturday/Sunday/Monday

We're on our way to Bali! We left Calgary at 7:30 pm on Sunday. We flew from Calgary to Vancouver. We had decided to take all of our luggage as carry-on to make sure that nothing got "added" to our luggage. We had to keep them out of sight in Vancouver, though b/c one of the airport employees was going around inspecting everyone's luggage to make sure it wasn't too big.

The flight from Vancouver to Taipei was very, very, very long. They kept feeding us the whole time. It seemed that we were eating dinner over and over again. I tried congee for breakfast. Dewey told me that it was rice porridge. Boy, was I surprised when it had green peas and chicken in it. To me, porridge means sweet. It was still better than their "Western" option of sausage and eggs.

We landed in Taipei at 4:30am. We went straight to the Transit Hotel to have a shower. It made me feel almost human. We had a 5 hour layover in Taipei. I went and brought us tea and coffee. I ran into a "loud American" that gives the rest of us a bad name. He was loudly complaining about the prices of the food and talking loudly in English about the people around him b/c he didn't think they could understand him. Geez, some people!

We arrived in Denpassar at 4pm on Monday. We were very glad that we carried on our luggage since everyone else had to wait. We got checked into our hotel but they had to put us in a twin room instead of our king room that we requested.

We decided to explore the resort and get some dinner before heading to bed. The hotel was very beautiful with luminaries beside all the sidewalks. We can't wait until tomorrow to start exploring the island.