What an exciting couple of days!  Late yesterday afternoon we heard some strange noises out back and walked around the deck to that side only to find a troop of howler monkeys cavorting about in the trees right there.  We grabbed cameras and got some shots and had a very entertaining time watching them jumping from limb to limb and hanging from their tails.  They spent today here as well.  We thought they left this morning but there they were again tonight.  The former house sitters came over and were a bit put out as they were here for 7 months and all that time hoped for a visit like this but it never happened.  Just confirmed what we already knew.  We're special! Ha!.