Operation Lion King

INVENTORY

(1)HEAD COVER (CHECK)-to stop little friendly fellas from dropping into your hair and establishing new families into your scalp

(2)TORCH (CHECK)-(to spot the targets or friendly fireflies)

(3)LONG PANTS (CHECK)- to hide the white legs of the Europeans so we dont give away our position.

(4)THICK SOCKS (CHECK)- to tuck the long pants into... to stop anything from climbing up your legs into your knickers (thats of course you are wearing any... we are backpackers)

(5)ENCLOSED SHOES (CHECK)- to stop slimy things from squishing and burrying themselves inbetween your toes

(6)LONG SLEEVED JACKET (CHECK)-to stop you from becomming a banquet for the bugs

(7)FLASHPACKERS LIP GLOSS (CHECK)- not a good idea- it just encourages the little fellas to stick onto you and form new colonies

(8)NIGHT TEAM (CHECK)- headcount... there are 10 of us.. of which 4 are French... this is going to be interesting

(9)TEAM LEADER (CHECK)- we have the Steve Irwin of all guides..... his job is to identify the targets so we can shoot and get us out alive

(10)BUDDY GIRLFRIEND (CHECK)- to scare the sh** out of when you get bored in the dark....yep it works...

(11) WALKIE TALKIE(CHECK)- to communicate with the other teams to maximise our stay and allow the execution of our mission sucessful

LOCATION
Thats classified
(but I am sure that you would know from the scenery Monteverde... Costa Rica)

MISSION
Leave nothing but footprints
Take nothing but pictures
Kill nothing but time

EXECUTION
With our inventory checked off... out teams in place... torches on....and buddy scare completed ......we have just recieved a Radio tip off that our first target has just been spotted.....as we run through the jungle on the night jungle tour... yep you guessed it... we have found him....

A two toed tree sloth... doing sloth stuff...hanging upside down feeding.
In fact they spend most of their lives upside down... and can rotate their head backwards (not unlike the Exorcist, except without the projectile vomiting).
Target identified and shot...

A female tarantula , only coming out to take her prey...it puts a new slant on the book EAT PREY LOVE..... or perhaps PRAY EAT LOVE....target identified and shot...

Then there was the deadly snake(so deadly I forgot its name)... I was being a female and looking at about 10 different other things...but one of the most deadliest snake in Central America.... so cute you want to take it home in your top pocket...

We were then instructed to turn all torches off....(the universe is testing me ... you know I hate the dark). Then I felt a thousand pairs of eyes in the jungle staring at me.....why was I all of a sudden in the next Madagascar movie....

Fireflies everywhere...sending out their own morse code light signals to match their mating species...I wonder what happends if they get confused and get a dash and a dot mixed up..

Anyway back to the lights...when our torches were off we were told to hold onto the person next to us....then the unthinkable....... yep you guessed it
the most dangerous predator of all appeared....
more dangerous than any snake, wild cat, or spider.....
it landed right smack bang on my girlfriends butt.....

Crikey it was the hand of the tour guide.

Now I thought he said to hold the hand of the person next to you...but Damm I must have misheared.... he must have said butt not hand....sorry french man.

Lights on... fireflies off... hands off butt and hands apart..
Mind you its the first time I have seen my girlfirend lost for words...
Exit jungle... 10 persons still in tact.

MISSION ACOMPLISHED

CODE NAME KITTY KAT

PS yes that is a photo of a mother scorpion with her babies on her back..