Bintang Beer and Beauty...While I am writing this I am sitting in the fancy restaurant at my hotel outside, under a thatched roof while it thunders, lightning and pours rain! This is a first. it is pouring all around me as I eat my broccoli cappucino with truffle oil

After a lovely evening sitting on the beach in Jimbaron eating "live" lobsters and drinking beer we had a sunrise breakfast planned on the private beach near our hotel.  (This is a picture of the stretch of cabanas on the sand)  That night on the beach sitting in our sinking chairs facing the waves they asked us if we wanted live lobsters or dead ones.  Which ones would you have chosen?  I went to the tanks and discovered that they had two different varieties,  so we wanted one of each.  We added some giant grilled clams with chili butter while we waited for our lobsters to be steamed with garlic and lemon grass for the more delicate variety and chili paste on the grill for the heartier guy.

 If you want vegetables you need to buy roasted corn from the vendor on the sand. they divide up the labor so everyone can have a little business if they so desire.  The Bintang beer and peanuts is from a separate business;  the bill came to $2,700,000. What kind of money is that that you need to?  Geez, that is well over $200! I think we should have chosen the dead lobsters and risked our lives to save a lot of rupiahs.  It has been challenging for us to figure out the money:  8800 rupiahs equal one dollar.  That is way too much math for me.  

Our breakfast bento box with an egg sandwich in that bagel that was outstanding, exotic fruit salad, really gross muesli (who eats that stuff anyway?), a vanilla muffin, the freshest croissant and an entire banana baked inside that first pastry of course enough butter to slather your entire arm.

Two chairs set up in front of our cabana just for us and yes, that is the sun rising.  Amazing we got up for it and we were thrilled that we did.

Their Mis en Place for our breakfast service

Don't you want this every day?

Debbie getting ready to rinse her feet with the water and ladle they provided.  She just loved that touch.  it was nice to rinse your feet so you keep your bed nice and pristine while you gaze at the ocean.  These cabanas looked hidden in the sand when we arrived because they are at the back of the beach surrounded by these lush plants.  Inside these plants were all sorts of birds making all sorts of silly sounds. After we spaced out for a good long while Debbie motivated me to go into the Indian ocean.  We stayed in the water for almost 2 hours.