Named the Ulysses S. Grant Historical Site, Grant's Farm is a 281 acre ancentral home of the Busch Family for 4 generations, 80 acres of which was given by Julia's father, Frederick Dent, to the couple as a wedding present. History taken cared of, these are my shots of the Monkey Island. You can see here that I tried to lured these monkeys out to pose for me but all they gave me are their butts…
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2 So I moved to another angle and this is what this creature gave me – a straight shot! Look at his eyes…I sincerely think the silly bugger meant to do this to me…I obliged.
3 I turned my attention to the other ones at the side of the pool. This is actually how these monkeys looks like...
4 Being nearly Halloween, the place has all the decorations for the evening parties each night, $20 to park per car compared to $12/car during the day. There was recently a complaint about the food area being shut down earlier even before the concert finished. Oh well, at least we do not have to go there that night as we have doggies waiting for us to come home to and be fed. (And to Bill's frustration, I keep adding to my menagerie which now included wild birds. Ha!) Here is the overview of the island itself which explains the blue reflections on some areas...
Thank you all so much for looking and any comments and harsh critiques are very welcome...