Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Monkey Mania!

Back in August we were lucky to hang out with these guys at the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Ubud, Bali.


This guy was by far our favorite though. Check out his advanced tool usage:


The other day JL and his sister bear went to the monkey onsen in Nagano. They made friends with these guys:


and this little cutie:

and watched this intimate parent/child interaction for a while:


Last night we had tons of fun playing cards with a fellow MN couple who is also teaching in Japan. What fun to be able to talk about Minneapolis and bikes and community organizing again. Thanks for coming J & A!

2 comments:

  1. is there any way to import sacred monkey sanctuaries?

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  2. right? we still can't decide which are cuter - the bearded old man looking Balinese monkeys or the cutie eskimo hooded Japanese ones....

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