After working on my painting of peach blossoms all afternoon we went back to Jinli Street in the Tibetan Quarter of Chengdu with some of the other nice young travellers at our hotel from Europe. It is just a mere 15 minute walk over there from our location by the Tourist Bus Depot along the river.
When Kelsey was a little girl she dreamt of having a pet monkey. On the way over to Jinli Street we encountered some Chinese men that had pet monkeys. As you were walking by they toss the monkey on you. At first we were delighted. However notice the monkey is grabbing Kelsey's ring. Either he is fascinated with the shiny stone or a professional thief.
Unfortunately the cuteness ended fairly quickly as the monkey started grabbing and pulling Kelsey's hair. Notice him eyeing Kelsey's ring again? His master was jumping up and down laughing saying "Monkey" or "Money"--or something.
Another fellow threw a monkey on my head as I was trying to take pictures and I was jumping and freaking as it grabbed my hair and jumped all over my head. Luckily mine didn't stick its fingers up my nose like he did one of the other fellows who was walking with us. I had had enough! Now I get it. They were saying "Money" and "Monkey" and you have to pay them to get the obnoxious monkeys off your head! I tossed him a few yuan and we high tailed it out of there. Noone was able to get a picture of the monkey on my head as we were all too busy fending them off.
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