Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Amazon Day 1 with a monkey

On the first day in the Amazon we got off the plane and were picked up by some people at the airport and brought on about a half an hour boat ride to where we stayed for the first night. They asked us if we wanted to see the worlds biggest lillypads. We agreed and they had us walk to a little hut nearby and there we found some surprises. The man who looked over the little place was there and he greeted us. Then he showed us his friends. A monkey ran up to us and started climbing on us! The man told us the monkeys name was Martin. He really liked Dad from the beginning but Dad handed him over to Maddie. Martin was really curious and liked climbing everywhere. Soon he was down Maddie's shirt! She was kind of screaming but we were all just really laughing. After that Martin followed us up to the hut and the man introduced us to two more of his friends. These ones were birds. I am not sure of what kind they were but they were beautiful. He held one in each of his hands and we each got our pictures with them. Andrew got them put on his shoulders and he was terrified! I was lucky and had them on my hands. Martin was still jumping around the hut when we finished with the birds. Andrew became terrified of the monkey too when we tried to jump on him from a ledge. I really liked him though and it was funny when he climbed on everyone. Finally we were going to see the lillypads. The monkey stayed with us the whole time to them and back. Because the amazon water level rises and falls so much, sometimes some areas are flooded and sometimes not. So that we didn't walk through the mud as much they had bridges. Martin was on Dad's shoulder for the short walk there. When we got to the lillypads they were big. We didn't stay for long but it was pretty cool. After that we went back to the hut and said goodbye to Martin. He didn't like leaving when the man told him to stay though.



-  Elena

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