View ProfileA black man with hair dyed blonde to match his wife’s. Although his is closely cropped.
Their child being comforted for her tears in the arms of an Indonesian nanny. The parents gaze off across their table towards the surf.
I imagine the man thinking, “Why can’t somebody else take care of this child?” Even though somebody already is.
“Maman!”
The little girl and her mother speak French amongst themselves. The father uses British-accented English and fusses a lot with his hand phone.
The nanny calls out to the child, who is now crawling across the lounging cushions towards my head.
“Eva! Eva!”
I feel my cushion give and turn towards her without using my eyes to actually look.
Caught!
The girl scurries back.
“Sorry,” the nanny says to me, holding up a French fry speared on a fork.
I smile.
She smiles.
The father glances over to read my reaction. Satisfied, he turns back to the wife.
The child starts to hop like a bunny over the cushions, much to the nanny’s chagrin. And then there are monkey imitations.
I turn back to my book and nurse my $8 Apple Thyme martini as a man glides by above the beach strapped to a parachute with an oversized fan attached to his back. I guess that looks like fun.
The sun slips away. Now what to do.
Travel Betty Basics
Ku De Ta
Jalan Laksmana no. 9
Seminyak, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
Other Betties Blogging About Ku De Ta
Eric Cheng’s Journal has a nice sunset shot.
Josh Spear has a great shot of the reflecting pool and breaks the joint down so you know what you’re getting into.
And of course, Nick over at Bali Blog always has something useful to say.
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