After we spent time with the Wattilete family of Oma Nona, we had our last 5 days in Ambon with Oma Mado. Their house was slightly bigger and in an even more beautiful surrounding, and their backgarden backed onto the beach! We were very well looked after, constantly being fed and topped up with sweet orange water and tea, not to forget that we ate lots of Rujak (mixed fruit with a delicious sweet peanut kind of sauce yum!!) and mega delicious/tasty meals of tante Otti!! (we miss it so much now i'm writing this) They couldn't stop comparing Steven to my dad, who also LOVES the (spicy) food there because he couldnt get enough of the fish, noodles, rice and anything they gave him!
For a few days we visited family and enjoyed island life, in the evenings swimming in the natural pool created by the tide on the beach and enjoying the non stop music ambon provided us with. Just to make sure we had enough of the music, for the last 2 days they rented a karaoke soundsystem and local stud/ singer songwriter Lukie Wattilete showed us his music videos! What a treat.
On our last day in Ambon, We had one incredible adventure:
We woke up early that morning to go out fishing with oom No on his speedboat. And it was unbelieveble! Oom No was steering the boat and Steven and I had to fish, never done that before.. He gave us just a long thin fishing rope with a little hook, we had to throw it in the water and wait, while oom No speeded up the boat. And within no time, we catched about 24 FISH the length of my arm!!!! Oh yeah, and in only 2 hours!! They were amazed how much we caught, and their faces when we returned with the catch were hilarious, they even had to go back and get a wheel barrow to take back the fish!
Plus, our dream came true... We met our first "Little lucky", a turtle. We were soooo happy, it made our trip so complete. He was just floating around a bouy in the water and we got to hold him, take photos and then gently release him back to the water. Amazing.
Oom Jeffrey and his lovely family took us back to the airport very early in the morning where we flew back to Bali to chill, which we definately needed after 10 tough but really wonderful days. We got seriously badly bitten by many mosquitos all over our bodies and because of the heat and uncomfortable sleeping 'arrangements' we hardly slept at all! We were looking forward to some rest!
We also Caught up with Naftali & Shagiva again and had a great time, hanging out on the beach, surfing and going out in the evenings with Krishna and other great people we met in Ambon (all from holland). Nightlife here is one big experience though in Bali. Crazy indo's and tourists (mostly Australians) and lots of prostitutes... This is also the place where the bombings were a few years ago and we kind of could understand why there...
Mum and Naftali went back home after a week in Bali and we decided to leave Indo earlier as we had eaten, slept and surfed our brains out! We wanted to go to Sydney ASAP to visit Martha (my cousin), Luke & Don (friends of Steven).
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