Karma House 🕉

On the 23rd december we went back to Bali because we had an appointment at a tattoo studio on Christmas Eve.
When our fast boat left Nusa Lembongan we noticed how choppy the ocean was due to the storm that had come up in the last days. Both of us were a little bit afraid during the first minutes of the trip - it was so bumpy and water sprayed through the windows 😬- but luckily a few more minutes later the ocean seemed to be way less choppy and we felt safe again. 😮‍💨
When we arrived at the harbour in Sanur we were quite happy that this had been our last ferry/ fast boat trip 😅 we went to our accommodation in Ubud by shuttle, rented a motorbike and drove to a medical care center. I was a little bit worried because my health condition hadn’t really improved in the last days and wanted to do a health checkup. Also Mo had stepped on a coral reef while surfing on Lembongan and it seemed like it was a little bit infected. The health consultation and treatment was surprisingly professional. They cleaned Mo‘s wounds and took a few tests to find out about my general health condition - seemed like there was nothing to worry about (which was especially important to me because we had the tattoo appointment on the day after). 👍🏼 we went to a small Indian restaurant and had such a nice evening. Even if we didn’t bring our Uno game, we ended up playing again because the restaurant had a few games there 😄 additionally their food was so delicious!

Next morning we were already nervous about the appointment 😅 the Tattoo Studio Karma House had been recommended to me and seemed to be a nice place for a first tattoo. Mo and me had been thinking about getting one already years ago.
We went to the studio and had a chat with Juke, who was the artist that wanted to design our tattoos. After one and a half hours he had designed both of our tattoos on his iPad and printed it for the tattooing process. We were SO nervous about how much it would hurt 😄 Juke started with my sunflower tattoo. The pain was actually not too bad but I found myself thinking things like: „What am I doing?!“ all the time😂 Mo was also very nervous, especially because he chose his lat and rips as body parts for his whale tattoo. He was so afraid that it would hurt too much but in the end he said it hadn’t been too bad - we were both so happy with our tattoos, we find it to be such s nice Balinese Christmas memory - but it’s still unreal that it is going to be there forever and 😄Read more