Monday we left Thekkady for the Kerala backwaters of Allepuza. In the morning as we were preparing to leave the hotel in Periyar we were treated to a little surprise. Checking into the hotel the night before we were told that we could leave the windows open in the evening, but, we needed to shut them in the morning around 6AM, or, as the bellman said, “the monkey will come in…and they will STEAL things!” So it was Monday morning, I was sitting on the hotel bed, reading, when Matt stepped out of the bathroom and said “Corrie, LOOK!” I glanced up from my book to see a baby MONKEY sitting on the windowsill about 5 feet away from me! I screamed and jumped up just as the much larger, 40lb mama monkey climbed into the room. She was impervious to our attempts to shoo her our of the room and leisurely leafed through our books, rummaged in our bags, and finally made her way over to the coffee machine sitting on a desk on the other side of the room, cornering us by the door. Matt offered her some granola and tried to get her to leave by throwing some out the window. But she took one stiff of the Granola and threw it on the ground! She proceeded to eat ALL the sugar packets near the coffee machine as we continued to try to scare her away. As Matt inched closer to her, aiming to ward her off with a water bottle, she suddenly bared her teeth and ran toward us hissing!!! I RAN to the bathroom and cowered while Matt finally took one of our suitcases and slammed it down on the bed, catapulting the monkey out the window! Definitely the highlight of the vacation…monkey in our bedroom!
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