CAIT AROUND THE WORLD

May 6, 2023 — My 100th day of travel — can you believe it? (Although I suppose the days are a little mixed up simply because the day I left home wasn’t counted as Day #1 and perhaps it should have been. But anyway.)

I spent the day at Captain Coconuts and didn’t do much of anything. When I finally woke up in the morning, I headed down to the on-site restaurant for breakfast and chatted with a friend back home for a couple of hours. When I got off the phone close to lunchtime, I changed into my swimsuit and laid by the pool.

I was in the lap of luxury when I ordered a Mango Dragonfruit Swirl smoothie and had it delivered to me out by the pool. I also picked up my laundry that I’d dropped off the day before and took it up to my bed, then lay by the pool for a while, sipping on my smoothie and water, and read a book.

I went up to change again a while later, got my stuff, and went out for a cooking class, which was absolutely awesome! I took the introductory course at Gili Cooking Classes and made kelopon, tempeh with peanut sauce, and mie goreng. It was an awesome mix of different Indonesian dishes, since I’d had peanut sauce on various satays before and had had tempeh while on Gili Meno at the traditional dinner, loved mie goreng, but had never had or heard of kelopon before! The variety was excellent, the hosts were fantastic, and I had a really nice time and left stuffed!

I watched sunset on the beach with my sweets from the class (the leftover kelopon) and then headed back to the hostel. I’d considered going to the open-air movie theatre that I passed a couple nights ago, but I decided against going back out after getting cleaned up and instead just relaxed into bed after m y cool shower. I read some more after calling home and fell asleep at a far more decent hour than the previous night, which was a good thing because I had to be up at a decent hour the next morning.

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