Sunflowers, Lunch and Monkey's Oh My!

Several weeks ago, Joe and I went on a tour sponsored by the Embassy. The tour included a visit to the Sunflower Fields that were in full bloom and gorgeous and then from there we went to Lopburi to see the Temple with all the monkeys. You may have remembered an earlier post of the Monkey Temple as we call it - we visited there back in the summer and thoroughly enjoyed it. But we decided to still go on the tour as we had not seen the spectacular sunflower fields that everyone kept raving about.

Joe and I with a bazillion sunflowers!

A close up shot of a sunflower!

A close up of Joe and with some sunflowers - one of my favorite shots!

My most favorite shot from the sunflower field. And no we were not THAT close to this lovely bee - Joe just has a REALLY nice camera lens!

After the sunflower adventure, we drove for about another 30 minutes or so to get to Lopburi where they have a temple that has been taken over by hundreds of wild monkeys. Actually the entire town has been taken over by them. In any event - on our way there we were getting kind of hungry as it was lunch time.......then we saw this........

Lunch anyone?

Yes it is what you think it is - food piled high in trash cans on the back of a truck going god knows where to be served! We suddenly lost our appetite!

A close up of a monkey at the entrance...

Joe made a new friend....

These monkeys are not usually there - apparently the next day they were having some special celebration to honor the monkeys!

This poor woman - she had 6 monkeys climbing on her at one time. The other two are on her front. At first she thought it was cute when it was just one or two but then they all started climbing all over her and she was screaming!

Three monkeys having fun....

A family feeding the monkeys...

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You will see these monkeys at the next weight watchers meetings!

This one has a ways to go before becoming a lifetime member of weight watchers!