Gibraltar, Great Britian

The Rock of Gibraltar was pretty cool. We got off the boat early so we could hopefully see the rock before going to church. We walked from the ship to the rock. We asked people how to get up there and everyone kept telling us a different way. We got a little lost, but we finally found our way to, not the entrance, but the exit. The entrance fee was more than we thought, so we didn't have quite enough euro, but they let us in with what we had. We first went to the castle that was right there at the exit. There were monkeys all over. The castle was fairly small, but still pretty cool. We then walked to where most of the monkeys were, which was a long walk. We had asked the guy at the exit if the monkeys could open zippers. He said they couldn't. Well, when we got to the monkeys, Jake held out his hand to a monkey to let him get on his back. The monkey then started pulling our umbrella out of our backpack and the monkey opened a zipper and started pulling out the stuff in the pocket. We had our passports in this pocket. Normally we didn't carry around our passports, but right before we got off the ship, we picked up our passports from the front office of the ship and we hadn't gone back to our room to put them away, so they were with us. We didn't think the monkey could open the zipper, but he did and he started taking off with our passports. When I saw what the monkey had, I hurried and grabbed them from him. That wouldn't have been good at all because that was the only ID that I had left. After that I took the backpack from Jake and a guy wanted to see a monkey climb on Jake, so he invited the monkey on again. The monkey started pulling Jake's hair, so Jake was trying to grab the monkey off his back and the monkey bit Jake. It barely broke skin, but it did bleed a little bit. We were walking and we saw some herbalists that were on our ship (they were from Nature Sunshine, a MLM company). We told them what happened and they asked us if we had any silver, like everyone carries around silver. We were like, what? They then pulled out this little bottle of silver and sprayed it on his hand. Supposedly it kills bacteria and viruses and stuff. After seeing the monkeys, we went to the cave and saw a lot of stalagmites. The cave was pretty amazing. The pictures didn't turn out great that we took in there, but some of them are okay. While on the rock we asked a tour guide how to get to the city where the church was. We had to go into Spain to go to church. He said the buses only ran to the border and then from there we had to catch another bus that only ran every hour. By then we didn't have time to get to the church, so we missed it, which was sad. We ended up going to a multidenominational church that was held on the cruise ship. We walked a lot in Gibraltar, probably 7 miles or more. I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed going to the Rock.