Christmas Abroad

24122016

Merry Christmas

We woke up shortly after the sun, our very open villa wasnt going to prevent that. We went for breakfast, a buffet with made to order eggs benedict, french toast a local Indonesean Breakfast (a chicken and rice dish of some kind).

The french toast was excellent and Laura was satisfied with the eggs benedict, the rest of the buffet was acceptable as well.

After breakfast we went for a walk around the island. The private island portion of the resort is very small, we walked around the whole thing in about 45 minutes.

We returned to the villa to chill out some more before lunch. Lunch was another excellent meal, a curry chicken with the standard rice and stir fried veggies.

After lunch we caught the boat over to the Beach Resort portion of the resort. This side is much more family friendly, clearly less expensive, expansive beach, and solely buffet dining. We were glad to have chosen the Private Island side. After some hanging out in a hammock (literally).

After returning to our side of the water, we nabbed some scissors to wrap our White Elephant gifts for the exchange later in the evening (we bought some fancy chocolate and tea). And noting that a few more families showed up over the course of the day. Returning for dinner with our gifts in hand, dinner had been changed from the A La Carte meal we had hoped for, to a Buffet. The buffet was ok, it included turkey, so it is kinda Christmasy.

After dinner was story time for all the kids (of which there was a good number) so laura and i took our wine down to the pool to watch the water.

We then went up for the actual gift exchange, I had number 1. I selected a diary, as the nite progressed, laura won a card game, and while children chose our gifts, the parents of said children were pretty stoked to get fancy chocolate and tea.

After the exchange we went back to our villa to finish the wine and figure out how to watch more AHS. (The best way was to connect my phone to my tablet via bluetooth and send it).

After a couple episodes we turned in for our second night.