June 19, 2008
Luang Prabang, Laos
Day 2 on this slow boat journy down the mekong river.
We made a stop at one of the small villages on the river and a woman came on board with a “rat monkey” tied to a string and she was holding it by its feet.
We actually think its a large river rat, but one of our travel campanions, Jane at first thought it was a monkey – from then on she called it a “monkey rat” and it had no other name than that since.
One of the backpacker girls freaked out about the “monkey rat” and wanted to know what was gonna happen to it. Don told her that it will probably be someone’s dinner, he said she got hysterical and cried and wanted the “monkey rat” be freed.
What did she think it was gonna happen to it?
