Our 1 month long honeymoon

May 3 - Honeymoon here we come!
After almost 4 months of waiting and planning, we're finally on the way to our honeymoon. 14 hours LAX to Taipei, 3 hours wait at the airport, and 5 more hours from Taipei to Bali. All this effort to the other side of the world, just for the world famous 'villas' in Bali, the Twin Towers of Kuala Lampur, the nature of Chiang Mai and the impressive Bangkok.

On our comfy flight across the Pacific, Eddy is happily pretending that he reads Chinese magazine.

經過幾個月的準備及盼望終於開始了我們的蜜月旅行. 此行目的地 - 風聞已久的巴里島, 東西合併的吉隆坡, 純樸自然的清邁, 及日漸繁華的曼谷. 看Eddy笑得那麼開心在翻他完全看不懂的中文雜誌, 就知道他心情多棒了.

May 4 - Day 1 in Bali
After many movies and naps on the plane, we finally got to Bali'. The visa process was fairly fast. Bali people are all pretty friendly. The workers heard we were in our honeymoon, and told us to 'make lots of Bali babies'. Haha. Funny Balinese ;)

Our local agent John sent his driver 'Dedy' to pick us up from the airport. Dedy, nice and genuine young man, was waiting near the supposedly Bali-famous Dunkin Donuts at the airport with our name sign held up high. First he took us to a safe money exchange place, and we instantly became multi-millionaires. Like Eddy says, we're millionaire... in Bali only :)

We then asked Dedy to take us to a supermarket to buy some drinks and insect repellet - it was super hot and humid, and we heard about the 'friendliness' of the Bali mosquitos ... On top of coke and mosquito repellent, we also bought a bottle of Bali champagne to celebrate our honeymoon.

At the cashier, we were supposed to get like Rp 10,450 back, we got Rp 10,200 plus 2 candies. We were puzzled...we didn't want any candies. We thought they were cheating us because we were tourists, so we went back to ask for the extra Rp 250 that they need to give us. We didn't want no candies! The cashier spoke no English and we were pointing at the receipt and showing them the change we got. She finally took back the candies and gave us two more Rp 100 coins and said 'understand?', we said... no, we don't understand, and walked out thinking 'we're so smart...

When we told Dedy (who was waiting outside), he said that the Rp 100 is so small and useless that sometimes they will give candies to replace it. It's part of the custom. We felt really embarrassed. How come no one mentioned that on the travel forum? hahaha.. guess that's our first Bali adventure.

經過好多部電影及好多飛機餐後終於到達天氣很熱的巴里島. 過海關速度還蠻快的. 辦公人員聽到我們是來渡蜜月的都很高興的恭喜我們, 然後一致都說'多做幾個巴里寶寶喔'. 哈哈, 超熱情的巴里人 :).

一出關不一會就看到寫我名字的牌子. 我連絡的當地agent John照約定請他一個司機Dedy來接我們去我們訂的私人別墅. 免費的呢! Dedy 人好, 又老實, 一路上告訴我們許多當地習俗等. 我們先請他順路帶我們去換錢. $US 1 換 8800 盧比. 換一百多就成了百萬富翁啦! 真爽 :)

成了百萬富翁後就又順道去當地超市買些防蚊液, 可樂, 巴里香檳等. 算完帳後要找一萬四百五回來, 收銀小姐卻給我們一萬二百外加兩顆糖. 我們想, 又沒要買糖幹麼給我糖又少找錢, 是不是看我們是遊客要強賣糖? 又折回去找收銀小姐, 比手劃腳一陣後,她嘆了一聲, 拿回了糖, 給了兩個100銅板, 說了句 'understand?' 我們還是一臉茫然的說 'no', 心裡暗想還好有注意沒被當凱子. 沒想到回到車上 Dedy 才說用糖果代替一百元銅板是很正常的事, 因為一百元盧比大概就只值一顆糖. 哇哩勒, 早說嘛! 本姑娘現在可是百萬富翁, 要不是聽過太多 '巴里賺錢魔術', 哪會在意區區兩顆糖呢!! 好吧! 巴里行第一堂客 - '小錢 = 糖果'. :)