Friday, July 17

have you wondaful elepant safari

on our way to kandy, we stopped to ride elephants.
you know. the norm.

our first taste of the elephants was one moseying down the side of the road.

and then we arrived!
take careful note of this sign.
then we rode elephants, two at a time, through the jungle.
it was kind of cool, i guess.
they had workers take our cameras and walk in front of us to take pictures- this one cracks us up.







so. cool.
elephants are really rough, leathery, and prickly.
mine kept whipping me with it's ear.
as did melissa's,
and probably emily's.
as melissa and michelle were approaching the river on their elephant, they saw a long, black & yellow speckled crocodile-looking creature. they were definitely thankful that they were up on an elephant!
after that little safari we fed the elephants red bananas!
(who knew those even existed...?)
it was kind of gross,
yet really fun.
tali got elephant bogeys on her finger.
(HP reference)




ahh love this one!



note the man on the right. he is one confident sri lankan.
this was the most unique and enjoyable experiences of all of our lives.
we can now all say we have ridden an elephant through a jungle.

more pictures are to come of later in the day when we visited an elephant orphanage and watched them bathe in the river!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear All Gals on Elephants! I can't believe you did that!! Just about the last thing I thougt you would all do and so it was so fun to see the pictures. I saw joy and excitement on every face - even the elephants, right??
Go Girls - love ya, GR MA