Tuesday, February 17, 2009

monkeys at the mall - how have I forgotten to mention this?!?!?!

During our field trip to the mall this weekend, we wandered by a pet store. Cool...I like pets. I was practically in the store before I noticed a little creature in a birdcage-thingy. IT WAS A FREAKING MONKEY!

Yup...a black little monkey that stood about a foot tall. Upon further investigation, there were 2 other white-faced little guys, and one that looked sort of squirrel-like. I was too chicken to take pics, since the signs clearly said "no fotos!", a move that I am totally regretting now. I mean, I'm gringa enough to get away with not being able to read a sign that's practically in English, right?! But, I did take 3.647 seconds to comb the internet looking for their cousins, so you might be able to check 'em out, too:

the spider monkey in the store got the name Marco...because I like to name things and it sounded muy Espanol

this is a squirrel monkey, although the one below is the one that reminded me more of a squirrel...there were two of these little guys

a black footed gray langur

I'm totally going to play the white-girl card next time we're there; I need my own pics! Aside from monkeys, they had hedgehogs. Some things about Mexico are so cool! I wanted to buy one to name Sonic, because I'm original like that....

Elsewhere in the mall, we were accosted by a gang of Disney princesses and their pimp, the Beast. No joke, there were easily 5 of them. They'd just wander around and people would run up with their ninos y ninas to take pics...I probably should have made Rob have his pic taken with them, I'll add that to my list.

4 comments:

  1. thanks for the warning. if we get any packages from you with air holes cut in them we'll send them back unopened. as open minded as gabby and ditto are i'm pretty sure they would be unhappy with a little monkey or hedgehog running around the house.

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  2. Gabby and Ditto are party poopers. I want a Sonice AND a Maurice!!!

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  3. Brian - but think of how much FUN it would be to have a monkey - its like a full-time foosball partner...he'd even have thumbs. he could bring you beer/wine if you asked nicely...the possibilities are endless.

    Sum - what the hell is a Sonice? Sonice to meet you?! : ]

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  4. hmmm. all i can think of is the last time i saw monkeys at the zoo throwing feces at people for fun. i get that at work already. at least with cats its only a deliberate dropping of klingons as opposed to projectiles.

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