Feeding the monkeys

We made the short drive to Madurai this morning, but we were too early to go right to our hotel. (The kids get up at 6:30 here too! I can't sleep past 5am myself.) Manny took us to a small cave temple with lots of monkeys and peacocks.
After three weeks of my mantra "Don't feed the monkeys, stay way from the monkeys..." everything changed today. Manny stopped at a store to get some bread for the monkeys. We got out of the car and he handed me the loaf of bread. As I opened the package, the monkeys came running. I'll never forget the moment as I stood there with one small loaf of bread watching a swarm of monkeys run down from the hillside. It freaked me out a bit. About the same time, two guys pulled up with huge bunches of bananas for the monkeys. They gave them to the boys to pass out to the monkeys. We fed them so much that they actually retreated back to their perches in the trees to digest. Garrett and Yves started following them around handing out more bananas. It was great fun to finally feed the monkeys.