The TONSI monkey!

We woke up a little late today. I had a dream that I was in Jerusalem, and Scott had a dream that he had a pet monkey. The monkey sat on his shoulder all the time and had a long tail. We couldn't cut our dreams short, and accidentally slept in a bit. Oops.

Perhaps the monkey in his dream looked like this one?

But maybe more this size. Just little and cute: (This pic was taken just before reflexology massages. If you don't know about reflexology, or if you don't believe in it, please call me. It is real.)

Scott's dream reminded me of an experience we had on Tonsi Thailand. Tonsi is a fantastic little rock climbing HAVEN. This limestone is prime climbing material.

We met some cool people/hippies there who just travel year round. One girl was a horse masseuse. Another guy sold his business because he likes to climb better. We had dinner with a pair of best friends who just pay like $6/night and have been at Tonsi for over 6 months. The island is only about 15 minutes from the mainland, so it is very accessible to food and supplies, yet the island is very laid back and isolated. We had our best mango sticky rice at Tonsi. Oh how I long for the days of Mango Sticky rice. Memories are the BEST!

ANYWAY... the dream reminded me of an experience we had that we did NOT get a picture of. You know how funny things happen, but if you don't have your camera ready they just slip out of your memory? Well this is one of those things I TOTALLY forgot about until this morning :)

The day we left Tonsi, we were waiting on the beach for a boat to come. This guy had a monkey on a leash which was attached to a tree. Scott thought he'd play around with the monkey while we waited... bad choice. At first the monkey was cute and playful. It was climbing all over Scott and having a grand time. Scott would play tricks on it by showing it something, then hiding it behind his back or throwing it to me. It was all fun and games until the monkey turned. It suddenly just got CRAZY and started hissing and repeatedly biting Scott! I was freaking out, and Scott I think was just in awe that a baby monkey was biting him. It was a little funny at first, but the monkey got really ferocious. So Scott grabbed the monkey and threw if off of him so fast. That was the first time I saw Scott so aggressive. The monkeys owner who was wondering around nearby gave Scott the stink eye. But I think we'd both prefer the stink eye to Thai monkey disease and an open wound!