Monkeying Around in Bali – Indonesia

Welcome to Clay and I’s first adventure south of the equator!! Unfortunately you can get just as sick south of the equator as you do north with the common cold/flu. Yuck! As a result, the first four or so days in Bali were spent lounging around our beautiful accomodations and watching blackmarket DVD’s from the local stores. Since Clay thinks DVD’s are entirely too expensive in the states, and thus forbids me to buy them, he decided to let me loose here. A compromise of sorts. I won’t tell you how many DVD’s we bought, but we did watch Twilight. Amidst the sick days Alana and Clay were both reading the Twilight series. Its been a constant part of our trip to spot vampires, and discuss the happenings of Stephanie Meyer’s big hit series.

Finally when Clay and Alana were feeling better, within the margin of when I started exhibiting symptoms, we went exploring in the monkey park. I have never seen monkeys outside of the Zoo, and they were always behind the cheezy plexi-glass walls. This was part of the trip that I was really looking forward too!!

The sign in the park mentioned that the monkeys do bite, and that they are unpredictable!!

We read the signs after these two pictures were taken They couldn’t keep their hands off Clay even after he was rid of the bananas. I’m convinced this is because there is some innate likeness between Clay and the monkeys with their curiosity and constant playfulness!

Of course, we can all relate to these primates in some way as the picture below suggests. I am not referring to the monkey in the background of which I am grateful that the sleeping monkey is blocking his little activities .

Of course, there are other habits that are not quite so easy to relate to, if at all for the most civilized of us! (take note of someof the pinching and pulling between the two far left monkeys)

We did discover that there is an element of wildness that we experienced up close and personal here. After Alana pulled a few tails and Clay became the popular new climbing post, I came to the conclusion that things are a little less stringent here than in the United States. Luckily none of us got bit