Thailand Pt Tres-- Elephant Poop

The 2nd day of our Thailand trip (No, I won't be doing each day as a blog... why? because I'm lazy, its quite simple. I'm trying to keep them short because of the over abundance of photos I'm going to be putting on them as soon as they upload to photobucket. Thanks for being nosy)

Anyway, we decided we really wanted to ride elephants. This was one of the few things we said we HAD to do while in Thailand. So we booked a 2 hour tour which included swimming with the elephants. Kristen and I rode on one elephant while Erik rode on another. They were so cute.




(Erik and his elephant)

The ride was like slow motion whip-lash though... those elephants don't walk very smooth.

AND, Erik's elephant had a purple butt, so gross.


(Erik and his purple butted elephant)


(Kristen and I on our elephant)


(Elephants stopping for a bit of a snack)

We eventually got to the swimming part where we went into the nearby river.... The guy that was guiding our elephant got sick pleasure out of us freaking out cause the water was cold. Then he had the elephant lay down or kneel so we constantly thought we were going to fall off. Not that it mattered cause we were in the water, but still... its the principal of it all.

Then I look over and Erik's elephant is relieving itself in the water. Pieces of poop that were bigger than my dog, Comet and probably weighed more started floating to the surface. Then our elephant decides that this looks like a good idea and he should join in the fun with purple butt. So now we are literally surrounded by elephant crap. It came within like a foot of me and that was enough for me. I'll never be able to wash that gross feeling off. Haha.

We didn't get any pictures of us in the water because we were all too busy trying to avoid elephant poop to take any. They certainly would have been funny.

When we got back to the main area, we had fresh pineapple which was great and took some pictures of the only elephant with tusks...