Monkeying Around

So instead of trying to fit all the animal pics into my blog about our trip I thought that I would just give you a blog about the animals. Also for my little friends who read my blog it will be more interesting for them. So friends here are some of the animals we saw on our trip to Sigiriya, Pollonaruwa, Dambulla and Kandy...

Monkey in Pollonaruwa.
An amusing animal story...while we were in Pollonaruwa looking at the ruins and buddhas our driver stayed with the van. Jackie had left some cheese buttons (similar to mini ritz - but much better) on the dash of the van. A monkey jumped down from the tree, reached inside the van and stole our cheese buttons!!

monkey taking it easy

more monkeys in dambulla

Isaac with the monkeys in dambulla

water buffalo at Pollonaruwa Everybody's got a water buffalo. Mine is fast and yours is slow....I love Larry. We sang that song when we saw the water buffalo. Our driver thingks that we are nuts...oh wait ...we are!

The snake guy was at Sigiriya. He had a cobra and a python. He charmed the snake for us and we could have had the python put around our necks but I wasn't that brave. As I was going to pay the guy for letting us take pictures of the snakes (that's what you do here) the cobra got out of his basket and was heading right for Murray, Esther and Jackie, as well as the other people who were standing there!!! That was a little bit freaky. The dude was able to quickly put him back in the basket but it was still a little scary.

monitor lizard at Sig

Lizard in Kandy

turtle in Sigiriya