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Lovely plane, emergency exit seat with lots of leg room. Lots of food, dinner breakfast and snacks. Stop off in Amsterdam. Talk to Australian older couple who scare monger me about drink and drugs, dirty Bali and pestering people. Long flight to Indonesia, watched X + Y, devil wears Pravda and avatar. Played games on TV. Stopped at Indonesia for 8 hours and had access to lounge. Lots of curious people and I was a bit worried. One man spoke to me for a few hours and asked lots of questions about my trip he gave me his business card and told me to email him if I came back to Indonesia. He asked for my email but I didn't tell him. I chucked his card in the bin because I was scared it was a tracker! He taught me some phrases to say and then went to another lounge. A lady spoke to me and asked similar questions, translating for her friends. I went and sat with some other westerners to try to avoid the questioning but they left after a while and I just read my kindle. This time felt very, very long! Got on next 2 hr flight had another meal. As I was letting myself worry that the man in the lounge was setting me up to be kidnapped (he asked if I spoke Indonesian and then made lots of phone calls, I felt like in a quiet manor, although I'm sure he wouldn't arrange something so publicly.), I decided to try change my appearance as much as possible. I changed my hair, got rid of the carrier bag. When I got to Bali airport, I was waiting for my bag but it didn't come!! I found a man and he and told me it had arrived on an earlier flight and it was in luggage services. When I found it I put my handbag and cushion inside (still trying to change my description from scary man). I went through the doors and waited for Hannah and Sarah to arrive. Lots of men kept asking if I wanted a taxi as I wondered up and down. I came in 'domestic arrivals' and looked at the board for other flights but there wasn't one for half 11, the time for Sarah and Hannah's flight. I had 3% of battery left and managed to get onto wifi guessing the word for 'join' and saw a flight arriving at 11:40 for Royal Brunei Airlines which i vaguely remembered from talking to Hannah. It was coming in to terminal 'I' as I could see signs for international arrivals, I spoke to information lady and she told me I needed to walk round to another building. I was quite worried as I wasn't 100% sure this was definitely their flight but thought i could always come back. The walk to the other terminal was quite long and through a not yet completely built, very wide corridor. I was worried I wouldn't find them and started thinking of alternative outcomes. In the international building it was much busier! But it said the girls flight had landed over an hour ago. I stood around for about 10 minutes trying to spot them and again being asked lots if I wanted a taxi. I was just about to get a lift up to another floor to walk back to domestic arrivals (now imagining that they were in the other terminal) when I recognised a flip flop standing buying water and some hair! Then when I got closer I saw it was Hannah but they were behind a barrier! They disappeared into the shop and I thought I would cry I was so happy. However they didn't come out. Just as I was moving to see into the shop better I saw they had come out the back and gave them a huge hug!! Managed not to cry here. They explained they already had bought a taxi and we just had to find the right company. They are lined up with numbers on. We showed him the address and he took us straight there (10ish mins). We arrived at about 1. Paid for our rooms and was shown to our room. Through a nice lobby, we could see fish tanks above us and there was a theme of palm trees throughout. The room was nice and had a bath, shower and toilet room, although there was only a frosted glass screen that separated you. We chatted a bit in bed, where we discovered a deaf Sarah not joining in conversations was due to the fact she wears ear plugs at night! Apparently she has since uni but Hannah never noticed before! We tried to go straight asleep to get used to Bali time.
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