Day 255: Last Full Day in Amed — 100% Vacay Mode — Peak Chill
We start the day with a new joke, written by Willa:
Q: What’s a dumpling’s favorite weight?
A: Wan-ton!
I actually chuckled at that one. Pretty good. Suggested she tweak to: How much did the dumpling weigh?
This day was….the most zoned-out, chillest yet? Peak Chill?
We’d bought some mangoes yesterday, and today sliced them up and ate them by the pool. Seeing James with a lower face stained the color of mango for an hour was delightful. “Mango face” = sign of a peaceful tropical Tuesday afternoon.
There was a lot of ring toss and “ring toss-catch Olympics” in the pool while parents read and wrote and read some more.
The kids are continuing to practice the jump rope, and are getting better. Teddy showed them how to do the pro-boxer side-to-side swishy lead-in and they’re getting it down!
Speaking of reading, Willa started [drumroll] Harry Potter!! We can basically say goodbye to her for the next year, if this afternoon was any indication.
I got another massage. They’re so damn cheap here that it feels like we should take advantage and get them every day. Around $20 for an hour-long hot stone massage!
We leave tomorrow for Ubud, which is inland from here, and known for its steep rice paddy hillsides and “Eat Pray Love” vibes (a book and movie, btw, that I can’t bring myself to read/watch).
Turns out a classmate of Willa’s from NYC moved here with his parents last month and he now goes to the Green School (which is hilarious because their school at home is Blue School).
The school is very international, green and was designed by architect Elora Hardy, whose 2015 TED Talk I loved.
We’ll go see them Thursday in Ubud and take a tour of the school.
We had plans to go out to dinner tonight, but as the sun set and the kids continued to skinny dip and we sipped our homemade G&Ts with our Kindles, we scrapped that idea and ordered room service. It was the chillest possible end to our chillest week of the year (yet??).
It was needed, as absurd as that sounds for a family on a year off.
