#475 Wednesday 4 January

Well .... I know how Kaylia was feeling yesterday!  I've got the wog now.  I've been awake since 1am controlling the urge to vomit .... I'm staying in bed for today.  Fortunately, after having the doctor attend for Kaylia, I know what is going on and can control the effects to a certain degree.  It's still not pleasant. Vida has had a good 24 hours with us and is on the way to the airport (with Kaylia, Naomi and Kat) ..... with a shopping stop on the way!

Naomi here - Ian has been quite unwell today with what appears to be the same tummy bug that Kaylie had. He has spent most of the day resting. He managed to eat a bit tonight but it has well and truly knocked him off his feet. Made, our driver, also reported feeling off today. I'm wondering if it might be a bug going around. Mind you, Made also said that he ate a whole Durian last night with his son. Maybe he has a different reason for not feeling so well.
In the meantime the "tickus" has returned. While Kat was on skype to her parents, the little bugger (probably a relative of the previous tickus) ran up and down the step outside her door. Ian, in his bleary state, claims that that it ran into her room through a crack in the door. I am hoping that he's wrong and that he went into the garden - at least that it what it looked like from my position. If we hear Kat screaming during the night we'll know that Ian wasn't completely out to it.

On the Kaylee front - she had an up and down day today. She was great in the morning but didn't want to eat. In the afternoon she threw herself into the pool. Around 3pm she started crying and I worked out that she had an ear ache. Poor little thing - no sooner does she get over one thing then another gets her. We lay on the bed waiting for the pain killers to work and cuddled while we watched Winnie the Pooh (her other Bali favourite DVD). She's back onto anti-biotics for a suspected ear infection and tomorrow I'll keep her on regular doses of panadol during the day. At least her apetite has returned and she seems to be able to eat again without problems (do-nuts from J-Co did the trick).

Having Vida stay was a lot of fun. Nice to meet someone as mad about shopping as I am (at least when I get the chance). Every time we went out Vida would say "I'm not going to buy anything". Sure enough she'd find something - including coming back with a completely different outfit this morning after heading out to the bank.

Lastly, we're all getting very good at eating the local food. Between Made's enthusiastic teaching and our own experimentation we're working out how to tell the good from the not so good warungs. We now have "regular" status at one warung and each time we go in there the owner charges us less. We love her food and she is beginning to dig the crazy westerners. I think we're being charged "local tourist rates" - soon we may even graduate to "local rate". In any event we're still paying a AU$1 a meal. None of us want to eat in the tourist restaurants any more but do so for Kaylee - who alternates between pizza and burger. Still - we have lots of time to get her used to local yummies.
That's all for today I think- hopefully Ian will be back on the Blog tomorrow.