Balinese Towing & Dance

As we made our way to leave Nacho Mama’s following another delicious $5 rack of BBQ pork spareribs, we couldn’t find our motorbike. We were stumped as we were very sure of the location where we had left it. Then we noticed all the other motorbikes were also gone in the entire parking lot where we had left it! Walking to the spot where it had been, a kind Balinese man approached us and asked if we were looking for our bike. Nodding yes in confusion, he led us to a new makeshift parking lot for their ceremony and lo and behold, our motorbike! Apparently since they just picked up the bikes and moved them… little did we know we had just witnessed the Balinese towing service! He then invited us to see their Balinese ceremonial dance. Out of respect, they asked us to cover our legs with sarongs they conveniently had on hand for tourists like us to borrow. It was very interesting and quite different. The movements seemed awkward to the music of xylophones and drums. Then they had this wierd dragon/sheepdog looking thing with two people dancing underneat and chattering the wood teeth at the crowd. Again, wish we were able to upload the video.