Day 39 - Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE (as the great Shakin' Stevens once said). 

Weird Christmas Day morning, not quite the same excitement but looking forward to our gorgeous Christmas Brunch at the St Regis hotel. Santa has managed to up his IT skills and deliver our pressies via Internet banking! Maybe he is realising he doesn't need to kill himself traveling the world in one night and just get involved in internet shopping! Huge thank you to our parents for our pressies, to Jane and Yiannis for keeping us fed and sheltered for another week on our travels and Mum, Dad and my Sis for the gift of unlimited booze at our brunch today. :-)

Love Jacobs picture from this morning. (Santa should have spotted the Ferrero Roche underneath though. School boy error). 

The good news is that the sun is out today! No more torrential rain (well at least for now). We have a very good workout in the gym before we head to brunch. That's 17 miles in two days I have run. Definitely ready to stuff my face Christmas style. The food coma later will be well earnt. 

Bloody Mary's in King Coles bar pre Brunch. 

Best present ever... ;-)

The hotel is gorgeous. I wonder why we aren't treating ourselves and staying here then I find out from reception that it's $1,200 per night. That will be why then. 

 

Nat cried when we got to our table it is so nice and Christmassy. Luckily we seem to have landed the best table in the place. It is so Christmassy and just what we needed. 

Biggest tea pot in the world that was the most unused. After it was delivered we discovered the drinks package. No more tea was drunk in the duration of Christmas brunch. We also only have until 3pm so we have missed 30 mins boozing time. Time to play champagne catch up. My fave game. 

Booze package is great. Whatever we want unlimited from this (thanks M+D)

The buffet is absolutely out of this world. Best buffet we have ever had. We ate like kings. It has everything on offer including a giant Turkey (whoop whoop!), ham hock, sushi bar, dim sum, seafood BBQ, oyster bar, pasta chef, cheese board - everything you can think of. 

Course one (of seven for me). Four meat roast. Four meat roast. See how it cooks!

You will notice one tiny bit of salad top right. To maximise buffet efficiency this is all the salad / veg I have all day. Pure meat all the way. Delicious. 

Course two same as one. Course three is time for steak and eggs. 

For courses four and five see course one! More turkey and ham being delivered by my beautiful assistant. 

The setting is amazing too. They have musicians playing and singing Christmas songs with a piano and double bass. Let it snow was a bit strange! 

 

Then an amazing choir came in to sing carols. They were so good and cute. We both got a bit emotional when they start singing. 

Balinese Santa. 

View from the terrace. 

Time to switch to a nice rouge.

Nat falling behind. Choo choo. 

Double parked myself though.

Don't want this to come to an end but it's now 3.30pm and we are starting to out stay our welcome! Cosmo for the road on the terrace. 

As it's time to get up back in the UK we face time our parents to wish them a happy Christmas. Great to see them. Then we head back to our hotel and hit the beach. 

Gorgeous dip in the sea. So refreshing. Food and booze coma setting in. Starting to get hung over!

After a sleep on beach where I wake up and it is pitch black we have one more and then head back to the room. Going to be an early night! Hangover completely set in now. Bit more face time before everyone sits down to eat at home and it's lights out. It's actually been a really special day despite missing everyone loads. Would love to do a brunch with everyone in London next year! Merry Christmas all. Enjoy your dinners, games and terrible Christmas TV! Big love xxx

PS. Can you guess who is who?... (Nat has been busy again!)

Jacob looks a but old...