Our Beautiful Journey

Making a million friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you when millions are against you. I have four best friends, they are Santhi, Budiayu, Rista and Jiwadiani. We have been friends since Junior High School. Usually, every holiday we always take time to the interesting place.

On the last holiday, we planned to go to Ubud on Saturday, 3th January. When the day come, we were so excited. We  went at 10.00 a.m. by car. On the road we listened our favourite song and sang along together throughout the song. We also talked about a funny things and laughed so loudly.

After we had rode our car for 2 hours, we finally arrived at our first destination, The Antonio Blanco Renaissance Museum. Antonio Blanco Renaissance Museum is a painting art gallery owned by Don Antonio. Here, we’ll find only Blanco and his son’s works, there are no others artists collections. To get into the museum, we bought a ticket at the price of Rp. 30.000,- per person that include the free welcome drink. Then, we entered the museum.

Photobooth in Blanco Museum

Nearby the entrance there were some beautiful birds that we can hold and take the picture with. I, Budiayu and Rista took a picture together with some birds. While Santhi and Jiwa were afraid to hold the bird, so they just helped to take the picture by camera. There was also a beautiful garden with three wood benches, and a pond water with the water fountain in the middle of it. Beside the bench, there was a big blank frame that we can take the picture in. After we had took many pictures, we entered the gallery. At the entrance of the gallery we stopped by the security. He said that we banned to take the picture in the gallery. So we turned of the camera along we went around the gallery. The interior design of the gallery was really luxury. We felt like we were in the castil of a kingdom.                                                                                                       

The gallery has 3 floor. The first and second floor contained with paintings.  The wall was full of a wonderful paintings with a beautiful frames. Every frame have a different shapes, colour and engraving. We walked around and saw that wonderful paintings. The theme of the paintings were mostly about a Balinese girl. There were a dancing Balinese girl, an pregnant mother, a little Balinese girl and many more a painting about Balinese girl. There were some luxulary sofas at every corner of the gallery. When we sat there, we felt like a Queen. There were also some poems that made by Don Antonio Blanco which really poetic and hard to understand because all of the poems were using English. But we still try to understand that even thought it hard.  After we walked around at the first and second floor, we went to the third floor.

The third floor was different with the floors before, because the third floor was an open space. We can see directly the scenery around the mesuem. The winds blew strongly at that time. So, we felt a bit annoyed because it messed up our hairs. But, we still enjoyed it. After we had satisfied took many pictures there, we went down and leave the gallery.

 Our next destination was the Rondji Caffe and Restaurant which is nearby the gallery to took the welcome drinks. We got a glass of ice tea. An usual ice tea. But, because the place was good, so we felt like it a special tea. We drank while Jiwadiani and Rista made a joke by told a funny things that made us laugh. Jiwadiani and Rista are the funniest people among us.  Nana and Budi were busy took a selfie. And Santhi  was busy with my handphone, I took a picture of the scenery around the caffe.  Then, we asked the waiter to take our picture. After we had finished, we left the caffe and went to the car.

This museum increased our knowledge about art, painting, and Balinese girl. At that moment,  we realized how beautiful Balinese girl is. And we were so proud to be a Balinese girl. One word that explained our feeling, that was Amazing!

Our next destination was “Jembatan Cinta”. In English, Jembatan mean bridge, and cinta mean love. So, in English it called “Love Bridge”. As the name, the bridge was a place where a love couple usually meet. It made the bridge full of  love. Actually, the bridge was ordinary. But, what made it interesting was its name. The bridge is made by wood and there was two wood benches at the left and right side of the bridge.

When we arrived there, only a few people there. Two boys sat on the wood bench and a couple of foreign tourists sat at the other wood bench. There was also a pitchwoman who selling a souvenirs. 

As usual we took many pictures of us. Mainly, Budiayu. She took many pictures at every side of the bridge. We also took a selfie together. We were there not too long, it was about 30 minutes. Because we all were already hungry. So, we decided to go to a food stall to have a lunch.

The food stall named “Nasi Ayam Kedewatan Ibu Mangku”. After 15 minutes on the road, we arrived there. The food stall crowded enough. We sat at one of the empty place and ordered the foods. There was only one menu of food, that is “Nasi Campur”. Nasi Campur was a cooked rice with fried chicken, tempeh, satay, and some vegetables called urab. So, we ordered 5 Nasi Campurs While the drink’s menu were various. Nana, Jiwadiani and Santhi  ordered an orange juice, Rista ordered an ice tea, while Budiayu ordered a melon juice.

15 minutes later, our foods came. Before we ate the foods, we had prayed first to thank to God who have given us a fortune. Then, we started to have our lunch. I really like the taste of it. Especially for the fried chicken. It spicy and crispy. The orange juice tasted good. Over all, it was delicious. After we had finished our lunch, we paid our foods.

The clock showed 05.00 p.m. It was time to go home. We entered the car and went home. It was rainy along the road. But, my friends sang loudly. I wondered, didn’t they feel tire after all? I guessed the answer was no. Because they sang along the road till we arrived home.

Well, that was a piece of our beautiful journey that will always be a beautiful memories of our life.