Hairy Lemon Island

The boat coming to pick us to up to take us over to the island.


So upon arriving on the island, we discovered that Devin's friends from Speke the weekend before were also visiting for the weekend.






The Nile

Don't they make a cute family??

So Naveen made me laugh when I had just taken a sip of my beer and I had beer spewing from my nose.  Naveen was nice enough to get me some tissue to get the beer out of my sinuses, but then she took pictures...

basically I just killed myself laughing

We woke up early Sunday morning to a whole troop of monkeys!!!  We spent several hours after breakfast sitting by the water and watching them leap around

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