Yoke Fillion

Such a great relief that finally a year of religious wedding preparation as well as the reception has accomplished successfully!!! It was such a hard work organising everything by myself, especially my husband who had no idea of what to do nor how it was, about having a wedding in Jakarta. Of course, as we come from asian countries, organising a wedding can be a very big task, moreover when you’re not there in the country itself. But I made it!!! So many things to tell about it, but overall, the wedding was wonderful, everyone was happy, my husband was the happiest man in the world, getting a lot of surprises from me on that day. I sang him a french song, which my voice didn’t turn out that well because I was half losing my voice and they made me to sing at the same key as the original song (which was quite a tricky mistake), so imagine that this moment was almost breaking my dream to have a carrier becoming a singer!!! (NOT REALLY guys!!!)

After all, I really thank my mami, Maike and Jimmy, Ineke and Lieke (my beautiful bride maids), also Ii Yun and Intio Jerry, and of course all of my cousins, uncles and aunties who have helped us a lot for this wedding to be successful. Without them, the wedding wouldn’t be this great!!! God bless you all, and I miss you!!!

After the the big day, we went for our honeymoon at last to Bali and Lombok. First stop in Ubud, Bali, where things are quieter, more cultural and arts place. We stayed at this cozy, beautiful view hotel towards the stage where they play the "live" Balinese dance and music every night. So just being on the balcony, we could have watched the performance just in place, without having to pay as audiences.. BEAUTIFUL!!! Welcome drinks, heart-shaped roses on bed, roses leaves in the bathtub, really made this room specially romantic for honeymooners, guess what, they welcomed us with a small note on the bed, "Selamat Berbulan Madu" alias "Happy Honeymoon"!! I bet it was, guys!! (Jadi maluuu…*twinks*)

Three days in Ubud, we moved back to Kuta, where all tourists were… We stayed at this nice hotel near the beach itself too, outdoor bathroom which was making the first impression a bit scary at night time, especially when we had the room right on the corner at the very end of the hotel… a bit of intensity while we were sleeping, but the water feature at the garden at the back made us more relaxed anyhow..

After 2 days in Kuta, we flew out to Lombok, straight to Gili Trawangan Island, where the adventure started. Apparently, our hotel was the most luxurious, unique and perhaps it has the most beautiful swimming pool design with salty water though. Three stages of swimming pools, plus a jacuzzi, not a lot of people, just felt like the world was ours… we swam and swam days and nights, in the pool, on the beach… feel like in paradise… The room itself is very unique, small yet cozy.. the bathroom itself is also outdoor, imagine you have to go downstairs with the stairs that fit only one person at a time everytime you want to do your stuffs… a bit pain in the butt, but it’s ADVENTURE guys, ADVENTURE!!! (not recommended for people above 50 years old and a bit overweight, can be dangerous)…

Anyway, the frontbeach has beautiful white sands, though a lot of corals (ouch) but it was pleasant every time we were swimming there.. one day, we wanted to do snorkeling (that I’ve never done it before), payed quite a lot of money to be on the special boat taking us to 3 different spots for a day, but at the end, just half an hour after, I was seasick, panicking while in the water, couldn’t breath from my mouth!!! SUCH A FAILURE!!! I was disappointed though, but Laurent was a bit sick too at the same time, so we canceled the day trip of snorkeling and hoping we could get some refunds, but the boss was never been there anymore when we searched him. Well we didn’t regret it though, we understood part of it was our fault too, that we shouldn’t have done that at the first place when I especially haven’t done that activity in my life before!!! that was the lesson of the day!!!

The last afternoon we spent there, we walked around the island, almost 2 hours, catching up with the beautiful sunset overlooking the island of Bali. We had the best spot to watch the sunset, the best place to have a rest as well (wouh.. tiring you know!!!)

Passing 2 days on the island, we went back to the mainland of Lombok, where we stayed at Senggigi. Again, staying at a beautiful hotel with the largest pool I’ve ever seen, near the beach!!! Our room is overlooking the beach too and only 10 meters away to the pool… it was tremendous!!! Gosh, my love life has completed with the honeymoon trip… We both really had a great time of our lives! We really appreciated every single day we passed by there, it was really like a dream honeymoon…

I won’t be surprised that will be more honeymoon to come, since yep!!! we live in Paris… it’s like a honeymoon everyday anyway…

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