Cows, tea, and a tease.

So day 2.  It was a longer day.  Decided to do some beach exploring and see what else was around Seminyak.  After finding the quicker way to the beach the day freed up pretty quick, which in turn gave us more time to get lost.

So we heard about this club called 'Potato Head' that was just down the beach, so we decided to go take a look.  This was also the day for exploration and Christina's Bali tea room she heard so much about.

To the beach... well first the short cut to the beach, with a single cow.

City girls, no idea what a cow really looks like..

Made it in record time.

Self portrait on the beach.

A nice beach picture.  the restaurant we ate at the the bean bags is so far in the distance you can;t even see it.  Gives you an idea for how much beach there really is here.  Most of the buildings you see here are for the hotels that are right on the beach.

A view south. 

So after walking down the beach, a lot, and finally finding a way off the beach - which is a lot harder than one would think - we stopped at the Naughty Nuri's in Seminyak.  So getting of the beach was a mess.  There are only certain ways on and off he beach unless you want to be assertive and start walking through hotels.  They are definitely a lot picker here as the hotels like the W, villas, and places with 'Grand' in the name are taking up all the beach front.

Naughty Nuri's x 2.

Bottle cap door way.

Went for something a little different than ribs here.  Friendly staff and good food.  You could definitely tell this place was frequented more often than the Nuri's in Ubud.  You could buy a bunch of t-shirts, mugs and aprons all promoting the restaurant.  There was a cool 'take a book - leave a book' case too.

Cheese Dog for the lady.

Spent after the long walk.

Just a big all beef dog for me.  'Insert joke here'

So after having no ribs at the rib shack we where off again.  In search of the elusive tea house, with an out of scale hotel map.  We managed to find Potato Head on the way.  Its hard to see but the picture below shows the wall of the club, that is made up of a bunch of old window shutters that washed up on shore after a big storm a few years ago.  Guards with rifles and lots of security told u something was going on here.  Talking to the staff we found that Foster the People was playing a summers end (yup summers end in October) bash.  No tickets left and only VIP tables at $1000+ we decided to enjoy the downloaded version of the band.  In case you are wondering this is the 'tease' portion of the post title.

Potato Head

Not long after Potato Head we came to Christina's holy grail, the Biku Tea House.  Cool little place with great staff and good eats, with more than just tea.  There is a book store here as well if you are interested in doing some shopping.  I know Christina just wanted to go for the tea but it was a tourist spot for sure.  No locals eating, only serving, large tables of women in for high tea, etc.  It was a great time but this was the place that all the upper class/nose 'regular' tourists would flock to for their afternoon getaway from shopping and laying by the beach.  No native dishes and the feeling of a restaurant back home on a nice summer day.
Again it was a nice place and a good experience, but I would not make it a point to go back.

Pre tea food, and beer.

Book store and reserved table.

So on Christina's advice I ordered the fanciest tea there, oolong or something. You had to put the tea in the special strainer with the special tongs, then into the teapot, then you pour hot water over the teapot (hence the special wooden strainer thing), and only when you let it 'steep' for the exact amount of time could you drink it.  A lot fo work for a drink that doesn't get you drunk, but hey I'm on vacation.

Super fancy tea.

Christina's 'plain ol'tea'.  Such an amateur.

After tea it was a long walk back towards the hotel.  We walked a lot today and did it mostly right beside busy traffic, still no real sidewalks.  We made it back to the hotel but where pretty bagged.  Christina needed a nap to recover and I decided to head to a WIFI spot to post a previous days adventure.  I picked a place about 2 blocks from the hotel that was right in the centre of Seminyak 'Seminyak Square'.  Lots of shops here and people trying to sell me Viagra and take tourist surveys - only if you came with them to their office first though.  I had a few beers and lazed away the afternoon.  When all of a sudden..

Dance Mob!

 They danced for a while to the current hits (Party Rock and the like) for a good 15-20 minutes.  Then some lady got on the mic and said thanks to everyone for showing up for some company sponsored dance off.  The dancing was fun to watch but I wasn't too interested after the lady got involved.  Plus I had finished the post and it was getting close to dinner.  So back to the hotel to wake up lazy pants and figure out what we wanted to eat.  I think we went for a swim too at pool #1 of the hotel, it was really nice having the pool all to ourselves.  Anyway onto dinner...

Inside at 'The Junction'

Ironically right across from where I was blogging away the afternoon we decided on this place 'The Junction'.  Cool atmosphere and good food.  They made me some weird drink that was mostly booze that was pretty good, but charged Christina for soda with her gin.  Touristy area, with only tourists eating here.  It is what it is in Seminyak.  Definitely not Ubud but its not supposed to be, or else Ubud would not be so cool.    Killing the night at The Junction, making plans for the next few days before we had to get on a plane again.  I think this was the first time we started planning around that - the day we leave.  Sinking in a bit more that this was only temporary.  We did plan the snorkeling in the morning so we kew our last day in Bali was goign to be fun, but what to do with the time in between...

Seafood soup. Tasted pretty good.

Cheese Ravioli.  Gone before we got the camera out.

Christina claims the seafood dish didn't agree with her the next day.  But with our time in the sun and walking around the whole day it may have been something else - maybe that ghetto tea place :) Still a decent place to eat and would probably go back if we where in the area.

So to cap off the night we had coffee at some cool little joint in Seminyak Square - Black Canyon Coffee.  This was our second time at this place and we really liked it.  We ate here another day and would not recommend that, stick to the coffee.  Fast free WIFI which is great, hey whats that page open on the tablet? Christina tells everyone Ima  different person after I drink coffee as my body really likes caffeine.  Monster and Red Bull also give me a bit of a high too I guess.

Bedtime Coffee

So we walked it, ate food on it, and took pictures of it, but have not lounged on it - it was time for beach day.