Woke up with a bang due to completely nothing? I don't think thousands of dollars suddenly went in to ripple because people realised how useful it is all at the same time. It's just unfounded pump, the coin shouldn't be worth anywhere near what it is right now.
Its still completely undervalued...I'm pretty sure some big investors pushed it a bit (pump, if you like it), but to say its unfounded just means you lived under the rock for a while.
Ripple may have taken a little bit of a drop recently but that's just investors taking out some/most/all of there profit during the recent spike in price. I think ripple is one of these coins to hold for the long term, let the day traders do there thing, I'm hodling.