Balinese Mariachis

So were in Bali on a beach called Tanjung Benoa or something like that and our hotel is absolutely awesome. It's beautiful here and I ran for the first time on this trip along the beach this morning. Let me just preface this by letting you know that they tie up all the jet ski's and ski boats on the beach which I had noticed yesterday but didn't take into consideration really... So I'm starting out my run today and I'm looking out at the ocean and then wave to these two balinese fisherman and then BAM my leg hits one of the ropes right above my ankle and I TUMBLED into the sand.  I was like wow that rope came out of nowhere!  And then as I got up, extremely embarrassed, wiping some of the large amount of sand off that was covering the whole right side of my body, I noticed that actually it did come out of nowhere.  It had been buried under the sand but a wave had hit the boat right as I was passing causing the rope to come up to about ankle height and causing me to eat sand.  Sooo that was fun.  The rest of my run proceeded a little better but I was VERY cautious about those ropes.

Last night we ate at the hotel, it was a Japanese Buffet with all you could eat sushi so I ate alot.  Midway through dinner a group of three balinese men came out, two with guitars and 1 with a drum.  And yes they were balinese mariachis! Who knew?  Even though the songs were not in spanish or english for that matter, I think that they could still be considered mariachis.  Especially since they serenaded every table... 

Kuala Lumpur was a cool city too.  We went to see the twin towers and also they have a really tall "space needle" building (kind of like the tower of americas in san antonio but a lot taller).  The twin towers were SO TALL! It was hard to look up that far when you were right under them.  We also went to a bird park that had exotic birds from asia that was pretty cool and then to celebrate the 4th, which was not so much of a celebration per sae...we ate at Hard Rock KL.  Well that is pretty much all I have to catch yall up on.  We've been traveling A LOT the last couple of days but we will be here at this hotel for three more nights and then were going to Ubud to search for my balinese medicine man Ketut.  Wish me luck! (oh and mom our cab driver's name yesterday was Wayan!)