February 1, 2011
Hi Guys! It's Griffin here. I'm here to tell you about a situation where I could have really gotten hurt. Fortunately, I am a monkey. So, there was this hammock tied to a tree between 2 branches. And, there were 3 hammocks below tied to a tree, like a foot above the ground. The hammock in the tree was about 5 meters above the ground!
So, I climbed up the tree and into the hammock. It was super scary but I managed it. The first time I was in, nothing happened. It was very fun being up there. It was like I was the king of the world. I seriously felt like I was in a high throne. Anyway, I got out of the hammock and Alice got in. She about said the exact same thing, she's the queen. And, so, she got out and I wanted a bit more time in so I got in the high hammock. That's when it happened.
The hammock knot loosened around the branch and slipped right out. If I hadn't been a monkey, I would have fallen to the ground. With my instincts, I grabbed onto two branches so fast that I hardly knew how I did it after. And, so I wrapped my legs around the tree and got up. I seriously was scared. Don't armies of red ants who bite live on trees? I got out of that tree fast because I'd already gotten bitten by one on that tree.
Click HERE for a video of us in the hammock in the tree.
Bye, so long, Griffin signing off!
PS Colleen here: We did the hammock swinging while visiting Meg at her Kampung, or little village, by the sea and river, where she lives with a Muslim Malay family, in a completely Muslim Malay part of Malaysia. Some of the kids in these pictures are the children of her host family.
