Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Escape to (or from) Monkey Mountain

The highlight of our Sunday...

After making fun of Joe for more than a year about wanting to play with Monkeys, we finally went to Monkey Mountain in the Vosges. Think big forest with a fence with lots of monkeys roaming around. At first it kind of had a little Jurassic Park feeling that we were being watched, but once we were inside it was pretty tame.

Fortunately there was no inappropriate touching from Joe (like he has apparently done in the past with monkeys from Brazil), but there was one incident where a monkey did escape from the huge area. Patrick saw the monkey running for the gate and tried to slam the door, but unfortunately there was an 8 year old child in the way. Monkey runs between child's legs, and you have a couple of extra hours work for the park attendants to go find the monkey.