Lievell: 11.13

There's nothing special in every my hubby's birthday actually. I'd never celebrated it specially for him. Mostly I just made noodle for him as a symbol for a long life. Then we said happy birthday to him, that's it. :D

This year, I wanted to make it a bit special for him. As we'd spent lots of money after we went to Bali, I didn't want to make any cake for him. I made a special noodle for him with shrimps and pork sausages from a friend of mine. Then I decorated the noodles with some quail eggs, scrambled eggs, a happy birthday sign and few candles. It's totally very simple! :P

While I waited for him coming home, I realized that some of my friends from Mom on March greeting a Happy Birthday to Gaby - she's my angel so far ^_^. Evidently, she was celebrating her birthday too. We're friend for almost 5 years but I've just realized that she has the same birthday with Ali. OMG!

I put a pity on her as her hubby, her lovely mom, her sister and brother weren't around her. They're out of town at that moment. She's just alone celebrating her birthday, only with her daughters. I asked Ali to buy 2 packs of noodles from Bakmi Bintang Gading for her.

At last, Ali came home. I asked him to blow the candles and ate his noodles. I hoped he's quite happy with this simple celebration. I love you, honey. I hoped you'll have a great healh around the years and God always takes you care in every steps you make. :-*

Few minutes after the simple celebration, I went to Gaby's house. She's quite shock with our coming. She's crying. Oh noo...me too! I just did it as you're a savior from God to us. You helped us lots. You're really an angel for me. Thanks for all you've done to us, dear. Happy birthday for you and may God always takes you care in everything you do. *hugs*

On Saturday, we asked my MIL and BIL to celebrate his birthday at Bakmi Bintang Gading in Kelapa Gading. Thanks for the treat, honey! ^_^

After that, all of us went to our apartment. We had another celebration again. We've already bought a cake from Clairmont with a voucher from Living Social or Disdus - I forgot :P.

Pray before blow the cake

Cut the cake, please, Papa

A romantic strawberry for me LOL

Yeaaah, we finally had our first vacation again by plane after more than 5 years!! We've bought our tickets on May and I really can't wait for this day. :D Though the tickets weren't cheap enough but those the best price we had, 350K for each persons.

It's gonna be Fritz's first flight. He was so excited!!

Look at his happy face!

We landed safely in Ngurah Rai Airport. My best friend, Indah, was waiting for us in the parking lot with her daughter, Calia, while her hubby was cleaning up the room for us to stay. We stayed at her house for this vacation. I really have a great bestie!!

She greeted us very warmly and also her hubby. We put our suitcase in our room then we had dinner together at Bali Sea Cafe in Jimbaran. We bought 2 vouchers for us having dinner. As I know, Jimbaran has lots of seafood restaurants with beach as the view. We can eat along the beach but Fritz didn't love it so much. He didn't feel any comfy eating in beach side so we decided to have our dinner inside the restaurant.

I didn't quite satisfy with this restaurant as the lights were not good enough, the food also wasn't so yummy as I thought before. The most of all was the chili wasn't spicy, oooh gosh...we're Indonesian and we need spicy chilies, man! :p

Our first day breakfast. We tried a pancake dough from England. It's just coming from Indah's mom in law. Yummy!!

And the journey begun...

We passed the first highway in Bali. It's not just only for cars but also for bikes just right beside the cars' way. The highway was far from from traffic as in Jakarta.

We went to Ayam Betutu Warung Krishna, it's a traditional food from Bali. The place is so nice, it's shady, full of trees and feels like eating in warung though the food is quite spicy. Fritz couldn't eat it and he preferred to get burger and french fries from McDonald. LOL

Next destination was going to Tanah Lot.

Yeay! I've got the pose.

We're in the entrance gate

We came in the day and it's totally so hot. I knew that I'm gonna have sunburn in my whole body. That's so okay for me. We're ready to explore Tanah Lot. I let Indah and Calia to stay in a shade.

The view of Tanah Lot

Another side of Tanah Lot, so beautiful

We can cross to the Pura located in the middle as the water was down.

After we're done with Tanah Lot, we went to Beachwalk Mall in Kuta. The mall was so nice.

It's our little family with our second child, Calia. LOL

Happy 6th wedding anniversary, darling!

How Calia loved to play with Fritz and he did too

Few minutes after that, the weather was unpredictable. Before, it was so hot and few minutes later the wind was blowing so hard. We had to wait for Indah taking her car while I had to take care of Calia, the explorer girl. She wanted to walk by herself though she couldn't walk stable.

Time for dinner. Indah and Daniel, came directly after having private course, asked us to have pizza at Warung Italia. Indah couldn't control herself when she knew that the service in this place wasn't good enough. Dan had just waited for 10 minutes but no waiter came to him giving the menu list for him. Then, the most thrilling part was when Indah asked for a bowl and the waiter said that they didn't have any. How pissed her! She cancelled all the orders, the drinks had already ordered, but they had served to us in the middle of her pissed off. She paid and she really pissed off to the manager of the restaurant. She asked Dan to look the other restaurant.

Then, we moved to La Dolce Vita, Italian Restaurant. The pizza was so big, we could ordered 1 meter of pizza. Wow! We're just ordered 50 cm pizza for 2 toppings. Fritz didn't quite enjoy his pizza. It's not his fave pizza, Pizza Hut. :P

We came home and felt so tired. Ali didn't feel so well, he got fever. Indah gave him a Chinese medicine and it made him sleeping so tight. While he's sleeping, I had to accompany Fritz watching Despicable Me 2. Almost an hour he watched before he asked for sleeping.

Second day breakfast. Ali put strawberry jam in his bread. It looked so Western for few minutes, then he dipped the bread into his coffee like he did everytime he ate his bread at home. OMG! LOL

Ali woke up with full power. He said that he has to have that kind of medicine if one day he got fever again. Hahahaha....

After we had breakfast, took a bath, we asked permission to Indah borrowing her car for going to GWK. It's really near with her house, just take not more than 5 minutes to get there. The ticket price for adults is 40K rupiah and for kids is 30K rupiah

Outdoor family picture

Wisnu Kencana, just part of it

Bali view from the top of GWK

Amazing!

They're gonna realize it soon, 3 years later

Men in glasses

Mr Spidey

Hey, you! Get down from that!! LOL

The story of GWK

We went back home to go the other place, picking Indah then lets go exploring Bali again...

Warung Babi Guling Ibu Oka. Ali dreamt to eat it and his dream came true. Indah preferred to have her lunch in Bebek Tepi Sawah as they provided high chair for Calia. Few minutes after we ordered our lunch, the rain was falling so hard. The place was in Ubud and it's quite far from Indah's house. It took an hour to get there. The view in Ubud is so nice, so many rice fields along the way. How I love Bali!!

After having our lunch

Then, we bought some snacks for families and relatives. Indah had ordered Pie Susu for us, so we went to Denpasar to get our Pie Susu. The weather wasn't good enough. Suddenly the heavy rain was pouring when we're on our way home. It's already late and we dropped at Mak Jo to have dinner. We ended at Chinese restaurant. Oh no! :P

We delivered Indah and Calia back to home and we borrowed Indah's car to go to my friend's house at Jimbaran. The rain made us hard to look for her house and it's also late, almost 9 PM. Finally we arrived at Mba Duhita's house. This is the first time I saw her and her gorgeous kids, Daffa and Menara. Menara wasn't in good condition so he didn't play too much with Fritz. He went to sleep after that.

Fritz and Menara playing together

Mba Duhita and Kak Daffa greeted us so warmly. Though it's our first time meet, we didn't put any awkward chitchatting together. Mba Duhita is really a humble person and Kak Daffa is also a nice boy. Unfortunately, we had to back home as it's already late, 11 PM. Thanks for the food you share to us, dear Mba Duhita. *hugs* until we met again.

Mba Duhita, Kak Daffa, Fritz and Me

Last day breakfast. Thanks to Mba Duhita for this meal

Thanks to Daniel Cutler for giving us a place to stay

Ali delivered Dan to school because we rent a motor. We had to return back the motor at 10 AM

Our lovely children having breakfast, last day

Before we were really back home, we had to go to beach. It's a must. We're in Bali but we're not going to beach, it means there's something missing. :P So Indah took us to PadangPadang beach.

The way to PadangPadang Beach, so excotist!

The kids playing in the sand. Fritz waited for this time actually

L.O.V.E

Fritz and Ali made sandcastle, of course, failed!! :p

PadangPadang Beach from the top!

We returned back the motor to the rent place then we hurried taking a bath and preparing all our stuffs. The holiday was almost over. I really thanked to my very best friend. She's really my person ever. *crying* I didn't wanna my holiday was over. :'(