- Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Just flew in from 4 days in Bali ( for the 3rd time since Xmas!) Had a wedding to attend that was to be visited by many of ur friends from all corners f the globe ( mainly The US and Australia). Luckily scored a Business Class upgrade so I had plenty of leg room. As usual I also took hundreds of images and will spend the next few late nights getting them all sorted out and will add them to my ramblings here, for you to peruse. The bride ( Melissa Arden Wong now Bailey Wong) looked stunning, the Groom ( Luke Bailey and now Bailey Wong) was gorgeous, the location breathtaking ( Villas Atas Ombak at Kerebokan). Thursday morning was a nightmare at work... so muvch to do and absolutley no time to do any of it. I literally ran out the door leaving Tim holding the "baby". He even had to brief the incoming freelancer as she couldn't come before I was mid air on my way to the beach. Arrived at 7pm on Thursday night, couldn't find a soul and then proceded out to Hu'u. one of our favorite Bali drinking holes. We really expected that we would run into someone we knew there and chose this bar specifically as we knew we would be attending a cocktail party of Ku de Ta on the Friday night. Oddly there was noone around at all... So 3 Cosmopolitans later ready to roll into bed we were surpried by a call from Chardean asking us where we were and telling us to perhaps join them at Ku de ta for the cocktail party (which had just finished!) Nigel had told us the wromg date! Oh well... Arrived in time to see many of our long lost friends and had a good catch up. Bed at 2am.... then Sime was up at the crack of dawn itching for a surf. Breakfast at 7.30 supplied by our villa ( banana pancakes), the he was off with Ed to ride some waves. Me? Back to bed to enjoy my book and an hour later out in the sunto top up the tan, get rid of the marks and continue doing more of the same... ( I finished that book in 3 hours!) Simon vback and we jumped in a cab to have lunch at Ed and Olivias villa... only the cabbie couldnt find it ."its 10 minutes away", Ed had said. Bu the cabbie asked at least 7 shops for direction on the 40 minute trip. It was all worth it though... what a lovely villa! Serene, sumptuous, rice paddy views and infinity pool mmmm.

Spent the afternoon with Ed, Olivia, Matt, Ainsley, Jack and out two young friends Pablo and Sebastian. And now I have hundreds of baby photos too...

Enough for tomight. There will be photos to help tell this story from tomorrow ( and the next day and the next :)

posted by jen @ 3:26 AM