Oh dear! Obama is coming! Run, Run!!

We had told ourselves, prior to arriving to Bali, that we would establish a certain fitness routine and today we did exactly that. The sun woke us up by shining its morning rays onto our bed, a cuddle, a stretch and out of bed we jumped! A glass of soy milk and off we went to the beach. Got there by 7.15am, and did a 30-minute workout of running, push-ups and abdominal crunches: no rest for wicked, as they say! Back to our apartment and cooking a fantastic breakfast by frying some shallots, tomatoes, bok-choy, vacuum sealed chicken slices, add some condiments, add cooked Indonesian noodles to the wok, quickly whisk 2 eggs, add to the cooking extravaganza and stir. The eggs give a nice finishing texture to the dish. Most fantastic and healthy breakfast sitting in the sun and reaping the rewards of an early rise. As by this time it was only just 9.30am, too early for the beach for the crispy Swiss lad, we browsed the news, only to be reminded of what had completely slipped our mind: APEC summit in Bali, first week of October, with the confirmed attendance of the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia and of course, President Obama!!! We both looked at each other, knowing exactly what the other is thinking, as happens to us so often, that we could be twins: “Bali is going to be chaos!” Plan B needed to be thought of, and quickly! “Ubud?” Been there! “Lombok!”, we exclaimed in unison! Well, the Wi-Fi of our apartment is way too slow for an effective and efficient processing of our plan B, off onto our bikes and to the free Wi-Fi of Starbucks (our Italo-Aussie lad has a weakness for it!). Lonelyplanet at hand, Google at the fingertips and plan B was signed and delivered, and cha-ching, the credit card took the hit. We are off to Lombok, Kuta (South of the island), for 1 week, apparently still fairly undeveloped and the scenery is meant to be spectacular! Watch this space. As we were in town already, and seeing the persistent cloud cover, we decided to avoid the beach for the day and instead shop for dinner and breakfast. On the menu tonight is chicken burgers (frozen pack), and a fresh garden salad (Asian style). The evening will be spent watching some DVDs and just relaxing in our apartment. Interesting how a day starts in your head all planned out, but because of a tiny little unforeseen circumstance, it all changes in a flash! But the 2 seasoned travelling lads knew how to make the best of it!