- Thursday, June 06, 2002

The evening of the 25/05
Hugh and Jenni arrive whilst Simon is off at Canggu surfing again. We sit around the pool reading and chatting and consuming all available beer. ( Bintang, dingen ( cold)). Hugh is wearing "sluggos" or as Peta Dawkins would say "Budgie Smugglers" that have seen better days, not leaving much to the imagination. ( Contoured he says... not see-thru!) And me not trying to embarrass anyone, with my top back on, recreating the dreaded white triangles!
Simon returns and more catch-up chats ensue then we all settle in for an afternoon of swimming, reading and in the mens case, Backgammon. We decide on a game plan for dinner... Hu'u ( a Singaporean owned bar/restaurant in Seminyak).
Dinner and hopefully lots of cocktails so we all get spruced up and head out on the "Seminyak town". The restaurant is beautiful. A huge Balinese open aired cathedral ceiling, dark wooded design fest. Yes, not very local or traditional but very nice. We sat first on floor cushions by a low table on the edge of the restaurant's own lap pool. A pool raised shoulder height out of the ground with a water feature that has all the sides spilling over into a kind of moatedge.
B52's were had by all ( ordered by the other Jen) then all on to our own cocktails of choice. Mine? a cosmopolitan. 2 rounds later and we still hadn't eaten so we finbally adjourned to our table. Wow what a menu. Baby Lobster for the Jens ( at only $10) then the rack of lamb with a fabChilean White and a French Pinot Noir. Next thing we know Hugh is saying hello to the adjacent table. A newly maried couple of "old" friends from Australia. ( It later turned out that the female old friend had been a girl from uni that hugh had had to kiss whilst they were both playing the parts of extras on a mates film set... thousands of years ago... and now she workd in London with Jenni's cousin! small world!) The evening continues with much more drinking and laughing including a "hocus pocus" shot which was described as Having a mix of Brandy and other spirits, but had an overriding aftertaste of midori and sambuca. FOUL!
Just as we were about to leave Jen's knee clicked out ( for the second time that day) so we hobbled out like a bunch of drunks leaning on each other. To bed quite tipsy and straight to sleep ( with the quite loud sounds of running water from our personal water feature above our plunge pool outside).

Makes you need to visit the bathroom much more than usual. I think I counted 7 times.... Well a least I was flushing all the alcohol out!

:)

posted by jen @ 10:43 PM