Monkeying Around

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It’s been great fun hanging out with our cousins! One day one of them said he was taking his nephew, my 4 year old cousin (once removed) to the Apenheul… he had two extra tickets and wanted to know if we wanted to come along! Of course I said yes… and it turned out to be a really fun day!

We actually had lovely weather, which was good because it was all outdoors and quite a big place…

As soon as we walked in we saw the cutest monkeys just wandering around…

They were a friendly lot… all you had to do was put your arm out to them and they climbed on!

Pretty soon one had hopped on DD:

Trying to get them to smile for the photo was a bit hard… In fact getting them to turn around was hard! Didn’t really just want photos of their bums!

This one finally did….

Before it and another jumped on me!

When you enter the park, you can grab “monkey proof” bags to put your bags in, because the monkeys will pinch things…

I didn’t grab one, but I am pretty sure that little monkey didn’t get anything out of my bag 🙂

I bet if I’d brought my yoyos they would have happily made off with them!

There were also big signs warning us that the monkeys sometimes liked to chew on people…

Luckily they only jumped on us! They were very cute!

That was the most fun part… the rest of the park was full of monkeys that we could see from a distance. The setup for them was fantastic.. lots of ropes and hanging bridges..

My little cousin (once removed) took his binoculars with him so he could see a bit better… of course half the time he was looking through them backwards…!

Monkeys, monkeys and more monkeys…

It was a fun day…  and not really what we expected to see as tourists to Holland! A bit different from cheese, windmills and tulips! But well worth doing, and like I said,  the best part was at the beginning… with the cute little monkeys… I really would have like to take one home…