http://community.active.com/blogs/travel This blog will be used to report on anything related to travel including travel tips, people's trips and most important, fun places to be active when you travel. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:12:19 GMT Jive SBS 3.0.8 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-01-23T21:12:19Z http://community.active.com/blogs/travel/2009/01/23/monkey-business <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:037a2732-fc4c-4bd1-8860-f61bd17807a2] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p>I never really thought about the phrase "gone bananas!" much. But people use it to describe someone going kind of crazy over something else. I think I recently learned first-hand where the phrase originated. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>It's pretty common knowledge that monkeys love bananas, right? Well I had the opportunity to hang out with some monkeys on my recent trip to Costa Rica, and learned that monkeys truly go crazy over bananas. Crazy. They go bananas. Here are some video clips of us feeding the monkeys on a boat tour and in the national park in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p><embed allowfullscreen="true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="@videoPlayer=8812621001&amp;playerID=8724882001&amp;domain=embed&amp;" height="412" name="flashObj" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" seamlesstabbing="false" src="" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="486"></embed></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>The clip where the camera is really shaky is where I'm shooting the video and feeding a monkey at the same time. Multi-tasking at its best. <img height="16px" src="http://community.active.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif" width="16px"/></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:037a2732-fc4c-4bd1-8860-f61bd17807a2] --> travel adventure boating costa rica vacation animals Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:19:28 GMT MelissaE http://community.active.com/blogs/travel/2009/01/23/monkey-business 2009-01-23T21:19:28Z 10 months, 5 days ago 0 http://community.active.com/blogs/travel/comment/monkey-business http://community.active.com/blogs/travel/feeds/comments?blogPost=12166