Somewhere in Indo...

Somewhere in Indo…

This morning Lacey and I woke up uber excited…today was going to be like no other…somewhere in Indo there was going to be a surfing competition with the 40 top world surfers competiting in paradise at a secret location that would not be made public. However, thank god for Steve, because he knows the ins and outs of this island and knew exactly where to go. We hustled through our mini-breakfasts and hopped into our trusty van and headed to Padang. We rolled down the windows to soak in the sun and breathe in the beach air as we got closer to the secret destination. We know we are there by the Rip Curl tents swarming the cliffs. We park in a dusty parking lot and make our way down the steep cliffs towards the white sand beaches where we can see people starting to line up along the waters edge. The security check point is a tad scary as men with machine guns search our beach bags. Between our towels, Pringles and books we were good to enter.

The stairs we have to climb down are about 3 feet long, cement and scary! They are being hidden by the jungle banana leafs so getting to the beach is a little more difficult than expected..but when we arrive we dropped our bags in complete and utter awe to what lay in front of us. Pure white sand curling around our toes and the clearest waters one could ever imagine all settled within a tiny cove somewhere in Indo.

Okay so I will need to explain the “somewhere in Indo”…well and to explain that I am going to send you all to the Rip Curl streaming video: http://live.ripcurl.com/index.php?home

If you look closely to yesterday’s events (Wednesday here in Bali) you can probably catch some shots of Lacey and I as we had front row beach seats to watch the competition…at one point I was kicking it next to Andy Irons and Mick Fanning, two of the top world surfers. Yeah..I am not complaining. Some of the surfing we saw was I’m sorry to cuss…)(#$8032984 AMAZING! We witnessed Kelly Slater getting the only perfect 10 for an incredible double barrel on a solid eight-foot set as well as a “switch foot barrel” that was just insane!

If this competition was in the states..the beaches would have been like a madhouse..but somewhere in Indo..people are just peaceful and are here to watch the surfing, not to be the surfing groupies. The atmosphere is just like nothing I have ever experienced.

We took some amazing shots today of the surfers and the waves so be sure to check out Lacey’s pictures!

After 6 hours in the blistering sun…we taxi’d it back to our hotel. It was 4pm and we hadn’t eaten since 7, so we were beyond starving…after a dive in our pool we ran down the beach in a bar and ate our standards lunches: me: pizza Bianca (I am still a littler nervous to have any meat) lacey: chicken Sammie and fries. We have vowed to only eat local food however, we were famished and craving something greasy and yummy.

After lunch we got 1 hour massages by the pool for 10 dollars each and relaxed the rest of the day away. Dinner was simple..fried rice, movies and wine…our eyes were tired from the surfing we watched..Or more so we were tired from watching, oogling and drooling over the surfers.