Maesa Elephant Camp

WE RODE ELEPHANTS TODAY!!! We got charged WAY to much to take a sang tao out to this place and we didn’t even care, we’ll know for next time though lol. I hate having odd numbers because then there is always someone left out, but I think we’ve done a pretty good job of taking turns. Christin and I rode the elphant together and our buddy was 22 years old and his name was Mae Wampan. We rode for like 30 minutes and there were a few times when we literally thought we were going to fall out of the little carriage thing we were in on his back. Alyse had to ride by herself L but don’t feel to bad for her because her elephant and tour guide was so freaking cool! I would love to put a picture up of us on our elephant, but our tour guide didn’t smile, talk, nothing. Alyse’ s elephant was huge with two big pretty tusks, and again was just freaking big (her little guide took like 20 pictures of her on him too!) But the ride was cool, I didn’t enjoy it near as much as I did riding camels in Egypt…but it probably made a difference because I was riding those around the Great Pyramids and up Mt. Sinai! It was super cool, but we just walked this little dirt trail right behind all the toher people riding…pretty lame. I can say I rode an elephant though, and need I even say that Christin and I made it fun lol. The coolest part was watching the elephant shows after we rode, they are so smart with so much personality!! One elephant kept standing on his hind legs and spinning his trunk around and around…it was hilarious. They were spinning hula hoops around their trunks, taking peoples hats on and off, all kids of crazy things. I had heard of elephants painting, but it was just unreal to actually see it. The guy standing behind them wasn’t guiding them at all, he just held on to their little chain, I don’t know how they train them to do that. The elephant in front of us painted a picture of…an elephant lol. I would have loved to buy it but it was definitely $60 and our (Christin’s) camera works just fine…so we just took plenty of our own pictures lol. Oh yea, we bought the professional picture of us on the elephant and it came in a picture frame that says “we love elephants” and the frame is made of elephant dung…haha…I love cheap fun souvenirs. After we hung out there a few hours and got our moneys worth, we headed back into town and wandered around the rest of the evening. When I say wandered around I liteally mean we got dropped off at a shopping center with no clue where to go and looked for “nice nails” for about 4 hours. No one could tell us anything, it was the first time the language barrier has even been an issue. We were so stressed we literally got DQ twice during that 4 hours, and eventually ended up at ANOTHER MALL…still couldn’t find nice nails, so we went and saw Valentines Day…so cute. I was really disappointed though, with that many famous/good actors it could have been way better. I always love Ashton’s roles in movies, I think he’s just adorable. Anyways, it was a good ending to a not so good 4 hours, but a great day in general…I mean we rode elephants. Here is a cheers to being single on valentines day too, although Christin was the best valentines ever!!