It was all fun and games today at CSNW! This morning I was greeted with breathy pants, grooming (Burrito & Neggie grooming one another), and chimps playing games of chase with each other (Annie, Missy, & Foxie). Jamie made a few of the staff and level 3 volunteers try on boots and after finding the right pair she couldn’t contain her excitement and took off for a game of chase!
Annie: Grooming her leg and secretly watching Burrito play chase
Annie: Later in the day enjoying kale from the garden
Missy: Hanging out in the greenhouse
Jody: Taking it easy and soaking in the warm sun
Foxie: Carrying her dora doll around
Burrito found a sweatband and put it on to play chase. Burrito put it on his head as captured in the photos, but he also put it around his wrists and ran around like crazy!
Burrito: Thinking about wearing the sweatband
Burrito: Putting the sweatband on, but still holding his wooden toys
Burrito: Playing chase
Burrito: Playing chase with volunteer Erin and the sweatband over his face
Sounds like a perfect Sunday! Wish I could play too. I am planning on sending new blankets soon, so my big fun today was finding fleece with cowboy boots on it! I was so excited. I hope someone there likes boots! xo
So we can all assume that in photo #1 Annie is watching Burrito because she is scheming on how to get her lovely, delicate hands on that gorgeous headband Burrito is sporting as a nose strap (how is he breathing while running with that over his nose?!) so she can slip it on her waist and look oh so sporty.
I wish my mornings started out like this.
Reading your blogs and watching the videos and pictures brings me such joy.
Just imagination!
It is a testament to your wonderful work that you have created an environment where you are greeted by the chimps doing whatever they want and being their true selves, so much as is possible. You probably don’t allow yourself to do it often, but please do give yourselves, all of you, a pat on the back. Short of being able to return the chimps to where nature meant them to be, you have given each one of the Cle Elum 7, soon to be #?, a miraculous new life.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.