We are in an Internet cafe right now, and don't have our cameras...but I think it is noteworthy to say that we have finally ridden an elephant. Today we went to the Chiang Mai Elephant Conservation Center where Thailand has a big school/hospital for elephants. There we rode elephants, watched them paint water color paintings with their trunks, and even play musical instruments...and it wasn't even too much of a hokey tourist thing...considering we had to take a local bus to the middle of nowhere to get there. We became just as much of an attraction at the elephant bathing as the elephants were, because of our skin color. We had our picture taken about five times.
The other day we went to a hokey tourist safari park where we did see lions and tigers and payed $7 to hold little bear cubs for a photo. We thought it was mean to take the baby away from it's mama, but still couldn't resist holding the furry little fellas.
This blog posting is about to end though, because the man here in the Internet cafe is doing some weird coughing noises, and I think it's best if we go find ourselves some of those green medical masks that everyone wears here in Asia.
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stay away from strange coughing men!!!
Do they sell the masks in bulk?
I love that I can hear Laura's voice talking about the not-so-hokey tourist trip.
Holding bears, monkeys, elephants a man with three arms, pink dolphins??!!! What is next?
Looks like you are having a fabulous adventure.
Anthony is debating an MBA program in Singapore...any insights from your side of the world?
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