Last nights dinner at Metis was great. Its a french asian style of food, and was right up there with the very trendy upscale restaurants in LA, except way more beautiful! Its located right on a rice paddy and is completely open to the outdoors . I would definitely recommend this place to anyone visiting the island that wants to take a break from the traditional balinese food ( which is amazing i might add!).

Today was our "relaxing" day. We started off the morning with a trip to Turtle Island. We were taken to the island in a private glassbottom boat. We arrived at the island which is a conservatory for sea turtles and other wildlife around 10 am. We were able to see about 100 baby sea turtles! The conservatory is doing its best to preserve the sea turtle population in Bali as often times when the mama sea turtles come to the beach to lay eggs they are stolen by the locals to sell in markets. We were able to hold some larger sea turtles and they had one there that was 70 years old! They also had other animals like Bats, snakes (ew!), and birds. We only stayed for about an hour but it was great to learn about the sea turtle issue in Bali.

After the trip we decided to head over to the St. Regis resort in Nusa Dua. Wow. This resort was 5 stars all the way. I will be sure to upload a picture or two tomorrow. The beach here was amazing, and the pool was so peaceful! The architecture in Bali really suits my style and Chris and I have decided that should we ever have the means to design our own house, we are definitely doing it "balinese" style. They really make the most of the outdoor living and everything is modern without feeling sterile or cold. Its really amazing! We spent a long time at the St. Regis just lounging by the beach and pool. We ordered lunch here too and quickly learned that Bali's inexpensiveness does NOT apply to the St. Regis! Alcohol is especially expensive in Bali due to import fees. A Bellini at the St. Regis cost $40!!! So, as beautiful of a hotel as it is, we are glad we are not staying there.

We had our massages around 3:30 today and then decided to explore the local area outside of our villa. We've gotten a lot more comfortable with our surroundings and feel very safe walking around- much safer than we ever do on our trips to the carribean or mexico thats for sure. We had fun shopping in a local market buying and seeing the different food! We picked up some interesting looking items that we're excited to try. They sell bread here that is pre- de crusted. Amazing idea!

We finished up dinner about an hour ago and are going to take it easy for the rest of tonight. Tomorrow we are taking an early morning Yoga class which we are really looking forward to! Its funny, we thought spending 10 days in a secluded villa might leave us feeling a bit bored but im starting to worry there wont be enough time to squeeze in everything we want to do in the amount of time we are here! We still have a long time, but there is so much cool stuff to do and beautiful places on our "list". We are so glad we have a driver! Balivillas.com really has lived up to all of their promises, and we feel so blessed and lucky that this is our honeymoon. I dont think we'll ever have another vacation this nice in our lives ( well.... we've decided we're coming back here for our 10 year anniversary....).