Ugh... I just wrote a whole thing about monkeys and it got deleted. So here's the short version... I know you all think that all Steph and I do is lie by the pool. And that's not totally a misconception. However, I have gotten it out of my system, so I finally made Steph do something "cultural" with me. Yesterday we went to Ubud, about an hour or so north of Kuta. Ubud is, or was, the arts and cultural center of Bali. Today it's much like any other tourist town, with resorts, yoga studios, boutiques, raw food restaurants (okay, only one, but still...). We thought that we would go to the market in Ubud and do some gift shopping. Too bad the market there has all of the mass-produced souvenirs that you can get everywhere
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