Today we drove to a proboscis monkey sanctuary. When we arrived we saw pig tailed macaque monkeys crossing the street. At the feeding platform we saw a swamp snake. The lady said it was not poisonous.

The word proboscis means nose, so we saw the nose monkeys. Some fought over the food and even a squirrel joined in on eating the salty bread, but this bread does not have sugar. If it did and they ate it they would die.

When we went to the second feeding platform we saw silver leaf monkeys. We could feed those by hand! One even jumped on my shoulder and played on my head. Soon he lost interest in my head and took the bean for payment and leapt off of my head. There was a baby that, if you fed it, would hold your hand, as in your finger.

Silver leaf monkeys are rare to see. They don’t show themselves in the grey trees, they blend in to the dark.

One monkey pinched me so hard I almost cried out, “Ouch! Ouch!” But I didn’t.

Today we are driving to an orang utan sanctuary. While we are driving mom tells us some facts and I also researched it for an essay I’m writing for school. There are about twenty thousand orang utan in the world.They only live on two islands, Sumatra and Borneo. We have gone to one other sanctuary on Borneo.

When we arrive we only have five minutes to get to the feeding platform. When we get there we see some big orang utan apes (did you know that orang utans are Asia’s only giant ape?) They are feeding on bananas, young leaves and nuts. It is fun to watch them eat their breakfast. They were obviously interested in us too.

Some of them would fight over the food until the dominate male came. He did not have face pads yet. Those develop when they are twenty or so. The dominate male would fight and always win the food. There were two apes wrestling on the platform. It was fun.

When we hopped back into the car we drove to a national park. There we went on a canopy walk. We got to see pitcher plants and a flying squirrel fly off of a tree.

I hope you enjoyed the story!

So here is a story of a week with traveling families the week is a foam party going to a beach and to a pool party hope you enjoy.

Today I wake up and get my breakfast. Then I go up to my friends place and play video games. Then after two or three hours we hop in a van and go to a foam party. They spent most of the time filling the foam pool. While they were doing that me and my friends went swimming. The Hard Rock had a regular pool that had three water slides. Two small one big. Finally the foam pool was full and we were aloud in. I won a prize of food in a lucky draw which is when they draw pieces of paper out of a box. Then the foam party was done and we went home. We baby sat a kid named Spencer. he was funny.

The next day we went to a beach it was fun we made dams with Spencer. Then we went to eat lunch with Spencer. Then we drove home with him in the trunk of the car, this is not as bad as it sounds. We took turns riding in the back all week!

In the same day we go to a pool party at a hotel and we meet most of our travailing families: Mrs. Bender, Mr. Bender, Mr. and Mrs. Hickcox and a Canadian family and the Palmers who were all nice. When we got to the pool there was a big water slide and we all went on it. My friend Oliver and I made a club together. We welcomed one other kid to our club and he was also nice and we all had fun.

Another day I woke up and ate breakfast and then we went to a slide park. There were only three slides one had a straight down drop one was wavy one was also wavy but you had to go in bags on it. It was all in one indoor playground. We had races down some slides and it was fun.

The next day we went home and the Canadian family went with us.