My mom came to visit me! It was her first trip to Japan, and we went to a lot of places and had a nice time. My prefecture has a lot of beautiful nature places to see, but the thing is that they're a little hard to get to via public transportation, which is why most people just get a car when they come here. My mom got an international driver's license and valiantly braved the right-hand-side driving while I played navigator/sign-reader/person-who-tells-the-Japanese-car-navi-system-we-would-like-to-stay-on-main-roads-thank-you-very-much, so we worked as a team to get around some of the more remote parts of the prefecture. While we were walking around the Twelve Lakes area on the hiking trails, looking at our map, there was a sudden sound up ahead like something crashing through the brush, and we looked up to find a small group of monkeys running across the path! We could see one smallish one (maybe an adolescent?) in a tree, one crossing the path to climb up the opposite embankment, and one that just plopped itself down in the middle of the path and sat there for a while. Neither of us knew what to do, so we just stood there and watched them for a few minutes until they wandered away, then we continued very cautiously down the path in case they came back. It was cool because we weren't even in a designated monkey park like Arashiyama; they were just wild monkeys living their monkey lives who happened to come across a couple really tall, weird-looking sorta-monkey-creatures.
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