GeoCache

Today I made a new friend down at Ft. Hamer Park. She taught me all about GeoCaching. Apparently there are little cache's of goodies all over the world and you can find them and sign your name. This one was actually in the woods at Ft. Hamer Park! You are supposed to sign the little "guest book" and sometimes add a little treat or take something out if you can't live without it. I didn't see any bananas, so I just signed the paper. It was a lot of fun. I'm going to get the old lady to find it on the computer so I can learn more about it!

Third Day in Paris!

We went to the Louvre today! I think we only saw about 40% of the whole thing, and Auntie and The One Who Doesn't Like Me didn't think to buy a two day pass :c I think I met my long lost cousin while there though! He didn't say much, but he looks just like me!

I also met this guy with wings. He seemed pretty cool at first, but things went downhill really fast! Luckily Auntie saved me before things got too out of hand.

Second Day in Paris!

Today we went on a big boat! It took us all up and down the big river in the middle of Paris called the Seine. It was very pretty! Although I am very afraid of water.. This boat had big glass windows to keep little monkeys from falling overboard, which made me feel much better.

We didn't do much on the first day, at least I don't think we did much on the first day.. Auntie wouldn't take me out of her backpack, but I felt us bumping around a lot!

The bed we are sleeping on is all pink! My friend Wilbur is super happy about this. He loves the color pink.

Oh, I almost forgot! We went alllllll the way up to the tippity top of the Eiffel Tower! We stopped at the bottom first of course, I had to look up so far just to see the top! When we got to the top it was dark out (it doesn't get dark here until 10:30 at night!!), but the lights from up there were beautiful!

Paris, Here I Come!

I am all ready to start my next adventure to Parish... no... Paris... Sorry, the lisp got in the way again. I am shooooo exshited! I can't wait! My Auntie is taking me and Wilbur to see my girl friend Tiphanie. We are staying with Tiphanie's parents! Wish me luck!

Darn, darn, double darn. I was surrounded by musicians asking for my autograph and I was, well, a little incapacitated so I couldn't hold a pen. And I couldn't get the old lady to take my picture with any of them.

Oh, but I digressh... This weekend we had bunchesh of fun at the Riverhawk Music Festival in Dade City. We've been going for a zillion years and I love it every time.

I went with my beautiful Auntie, Daddy, the Old Lady and the Man With the Fuzzy face. Then all kinds of people joined us as well, including Daddy's friend, Race. I really like Race. He always says hi to me, even though I can tell he thinks a talking monkey is a little odd.


I spent most of my time there just hanging out with my friends and watching the big people. I guess we had a little too much fun the first night at the camp....


One of the really cool thing they had new this year at Riverhawk was a remembery booth. The Old Lady put a note for Daddy's friend Anthony that went to heaven too young. He was really nice. I miss him a lot.

But the absholutley cooleshed thing that happened was when the Old Lady found the guy from Peculiar Notions. He had a booth with all kinds of wonderful monkey things (and some artshy things too, but I'm not into arty shtuff). Actually, Auntie found it first and brought the Old Lady a cool monkey button. So, of course, I had to go check it out.

Look at all these wonderful monkey buttons I found. I kept going back and forth, "I want dish, no, I want dish one, no I really want dish one. Then then, you'll never guessh what happened next. The Old Lady ashked if he would make me a hat! My own hat! And she ashked if he could make it to match the picture on the pin Auntie found! I was sure he couldn't do it, but guess what!?!

He did!!!!

I think Riverhawk is the cooesht place ever!!!!!

 As part of my continuing endeavor to be the most well rounded monkey alive, I convinced the Old Lady and the Man with the Fuzzy Face that it would be a really good idea to go on a cruise with a bunch of their old (and when I say, "old," I mean OLD!) classmates from high school. I'm sure they really wanted to meet me and hang out with me, and this seemed like the perfect way for them to do just that!

 These are my peeps that I went on the cruise with. They were all a lot of fun! And, of course, they LOVED me!




 I made some friends on the first day. They were very quiet, acted quite rude, and come to think of it, I never saw them again after this picture was taken. I hope they didn't fall over board!

There was some kind of joke with this jacket that I didn't understand, but it was a warm safe place to sit and watch the water go by. I was very uncomfortable being on deck with all that wind and all that water. The Old Lady even made horrible jokes about what would happen if I blew off the ship! I didn't even want to think about it!

I stayed hidden in our cabin most of the first day, but I came out to have dinner and cocktails. I guess I had a few too many because I ended up, well, kind of messing up the Man with the Fuzzy Face's coffee cup the next morning...




 My new friend Charmaine is very fun. I am wearing my tux, of course, for the captains dinner. I never actually saw the captain, which doesn't make any sense. I would have thought he'd come right over and introduced himself, when he knew I was on board.


I made lots and lots of friends on the ship. This one was almost as quiet as the first two and he disappeared right about the same time the Old Lady took a shower. I don't understand where he went. Maybe the old lady with no clothes on was just too scary for him!




 This is my friend from Cozumel. If you look really close, you will notice we both have similar outfits. My rebozo is more colorful though. His gun was kind of scary too, but he was really nice.

While we were in Cozumel, we went on a snorkeling trip. I thought this was the stupidest idea anyone every came up with! We got off the big ship, which was scary enough, and just as I was getting all excited to be on dry land again, we got on a teeny, tiny sailboat and went back out on the water! Then those crazy people put on masks and snorkles and went INTO the water! Accckkkk... I was terrified I would fly off the boat. So um... I guess I made it better by drinking just a little too much Tequila....

And beer....



 

 But I made some more new friends and they thought I was WONDERFUL!

Until I, well, kind of barfed in their head....




So once we were back on board the big ship, I spent the rest of the afternoon chillin' with Portnoy and Gipsy in the cabin. It was much safer there!








That evening, they had a "private" cocktail party just for me and all the Old Lady's high school friends came to party with me.


This is me ordering a drink.......






And this is me drinking it...


 But then, the most horrible thing happened! During the cocktail party for me, I found out that one of my new friends, this beautiful girl named Amy, who I thought was going to be my new girl friend, this wonderful person.... She lets her dog chew up little fuzzy people like me! I was heartbroken and devastated! So I went back to the cabin, put on my pajamas and sulked. The Old Lady insisted I go to dinner, but I refused to take off my pajamas....

And I wouldn't eat anything either, no matter how hard they tried to get me to......

In spite of that trauma, I had a really good time on the cruise and I can't wait to do it again.

 Sho.... The old lady got a new job, shee... Back in April. It was at this place that moved stuff in big trucks. I went to work with her (of course) so I could help her figure stuff out. The "books" were a mess, according to the old lady. I never saw any books which is a good thing since I can't read very well, but that's another story. I never saw any trucks either, or I would have asked for a ride.

Anyway, the old lady finally introduced me to her co-worker, Barb. Barb turned out to be this very wonderful person who really loves little monkeys.

Shadly, the old lady decided the new job was taking too much time away from more important endeavors (like playing with little monkeys), so she decided to leave the new job. Her last day was today.

I was very unhappy, saying goodbye to my new friend Barb. The old lady promises we will stop in and say hello from time to time. She better keep her promise.

Barb gave me these beautiful flowers as a going away present. Aren't they lovely? Not as lovely as Barb, of course.