Our day started with sleeping in as late as we wanted. I thought that would mean as late as 9ish for the old man and 10 or later for everyone else (about half of us had stayed up til 1:00am to see the Lohmann's off to the airport). I was up at about 8:15 and was at least the 3rd one up.
Took a stroll down near the lake and joined Destin and Lindsay in a cup of coffee. Then breakfast with most of the team, check out of our rooms and then a visit to the Zoo (walking distance from the hotel and also right on the lake). The Mosquitos were outrageous. Then back to the hotel for pre-travel showers and dinner.
Funny story of the day. Jason was innocently sitting in the park at the hotel reading his Bible. Lindsay and Alysia were also close by. Apparently a group of monkeys were scampering around and fighting with each other. They finally kind of stopped very near Jason and realized he was "right there" and turned their aggression on him and started hissing and gathering in numbers. Sometime during this Lindsay saw what was happening and bolted. Alysia was warning Jason to "get out of there". Jason picked up his chair, lion tamer style, and tried to back away while weilding the chair. The monkeys also started to chase Alysia. She kept turning around and saying "Stop" because just running wasn't fast enough. But apparently they only understand commands in the local language and continued to pursue both of them. At this point a group of hotel staff came running out and chased off the monkeys by throwing stuff at them. The story obviously gets more interesting with each telling, but we've had a million laughs over it already. I do have photos of the monkeys playing in the park, but can't download them right now.
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