
A promising track took us over the brow of a hill to a spectacularly blue ocean


Its the money shot!

If I told her how elegant she looks she’d kill me!
For Friday movie night we got all set up around James’s laptop to watch Ferris Bueller’s day off (which somehow seemed fitting given that we has Cooch in the house who has been seeding all sorts of fun mischief with the girls throughout the week!). Bella and Emily made their famous guacamole for us all to enjoy with some nachos, and we settled in to enjoy the show.

Ubud Yoga Barn
we got up in decent time on Sunday morning to go worship at the church of Yoga Barn for their regular Sunday morning Ecstatic Dance. So popular is it that we joined a long queue at 8:45 am along with the Neo-hippies, yogis and other loons-such-as-ourselves to get our numbers (we were 82nd – 84th in line to buy tickets – the girls got in free), and then extracted ourselves to go for brunch (fuel for us, bribes for the girls). The main event kicked off at 11 and consisted of a slow build up of movement to a mixture of tribal, trance and dance beats. It built to a crescendo over 2 hours and then slowed right down until all were lain out prostrate on the floor (or hugging someone) while the DJ brought us down from our high with some soothing guitar music. It was the most bonkers out-there ‘clean’ rave that we’ve ever enjoyed. It sat somewhere between exercise, yoga, self expression and raving. I have to say that as an early adopter I stuck close to the open-sides of the room as the extreme BO closer to the centre became somewhat unbearable. At this point I was (once again) slightly relieved that nudity was strongly discouraged. Having said that, despite extreme sweatiness, everyone had enough self-awareness not to bump into each other (at least not unintentionally!), which is more than can be said for Space in Ibiza! It was a room full of beautiful people of all ages and races losing their inhibitions, and dancing freely which is a precious and rare thing.

