The Curse of Monkey Mountain

11-4-07: Last Sunday a group of us, aka Anski, Megha, Juho, Remco, Jeff, Amber, Sammie, and later Thao and Cindy, decided to go to the infamous Monkey Mountain. It's actually some sort of nature park with some other actual name, but it's known for the monkeys that hang around everywhere. So we headed off in the morning and pretty much immediately saw a monkey when we got off the bus. Jeff approached the one-armed monkey, who probably lost his limb from a car, and was going to take a picture when it made an angry face and lunged at him. After that we were more careful around the deceivingly cute monkeys. There are signs everywhere warning people not to feed the monkeys, but there are no rangers or any authority of any kind to enforce rules, so its basically every man for himself. The locals pick up sticks or even bring cattle prods to protect themselves from the crazy monkeys. Sammie was carrying a plastic bag, which a monkey immediately tore out of her hand and grabbed the remains of her muffin. They're quite smart. The craziest part of our adventure though, was when I attempted to take a picture of Amber next to a monkey, and it bit her right as I took the picture! It was so weird...luckily she was wearing a long sleeved shirt, but there were still bite marks and bruising. Anyways, we continued to see monkeys monkeys everywhere, babies and mommies, crazed monkeys, monkey fights, monkeys in trees, etc. After the bridge over the reservoir, though, there weren't really any more. I guess they just hang out toward the front of the park? Well this is when we began to film our epic movie, The Curse of Monkey Mountain. At first we were just fooling around making some random videos and then we decided to make a movie. It was hilarious fun. Especially when we were discussing how to film a scene and a local family would hike past us. It was a fantastic day with my fabulously weird friends. Cindy and Thao joined us later in time to take part in the filming. I will post up the movie in my next post, it's also on facebook! Pretty scary stuff. After that we grabbed some food and headed home. One of the most fun days ever.