The last few days have been spent fully relaxing, sunbathing, shopping and a few nights out, we met a nice group of boys from melbourne by the pool who have told us what to expect from living there and that's there's really not as many deadly animals as we think! Today I went for my first surf lesson! To everyone's surprise I got up on the board first time and stood up for almost 30 seconds before falling off, but then was unable to do it again for the next hour,...

The boat over to bali is long but nice and breezy in the hot weather, we've prebooked our taxi and hotel this time so our feeling organised until of course in typical Asian style the cab driver drops us miles away from where we need to be, after asking directions from 3 people all sending us in different directions we finally find it and check in. The hotel is lovely, air con tv, 2 pools, bar and restaurant we have an accidental nap and then get ready to go out a...

We head down to the scuba shop and fill in our forms and get measured for our equipment then it's straight on the boat and a quick drive to the dive site, we all jump in the water and wait for our guide to give us a briefing, what we might see etc, instead he says 'ready? Ok let's go' and plunges straight down, and we follow. It's even clearer here than in Koh tao and there are some amazing fish, one thing the guide did say as we we getting ready was if we don't ...

Another relaxing day not doing much, lunch on the beach, more sunbathing and later a few drinks at one of the bars, but an earlyish night so we are ready for our dive tomorrow!

We spend the day by our pool and the beach catching some Indonesian sun then we walk down to the scuba shop where Elliot's friend works and find that he's gone on holiday!! Yes holiday he lives on gili air and he's gone on holiday, but we are still we can still get discount which is pretty good! So we book a trip for Monday! Later we go to a restraunt which has an open air cinema with bean bags in the beach and get to watch my baby leo in wolf of Wall Street! Yay...