An elephant never forgets...

One of my fave memories of my sister when we were younger In a video of her snotty little face coming stupidly close to the camera trying to talk to my dad through the lens asking for him to put on dumbo, similar to this there is another tape of her receiving 'Dumbo' as a present and getting so excited she hugged her video to her chest...

For this reason I am very excited to see her reaction when she actually comes face to face with an elephant in april. Will she hug the elephant in the same way as her DVD? Will her face go all 'special' like in the video?? I will keep you posted.

I wanted to have a quick tester before our trip in April so today after work I joined the others for elephant trekking. It was amazing!!

Elephants are such beautiful, kind looking creatures. They are huge without being clumsy and so gentle!!

We went for a treck around the jungle, mine was called honey and our tour guide named himself 'mr man'. We walked over rivers with ease and took down any little tree that got in our way. That's what you call double A RD!!

Was a little scared when I was sat on her neck and Mr Man decided to leave us to take photos; Honey got bored and went off on her own stroll. Luckily Mr Man got hold of her again and I didn't fall off and die (as Kru Pija said I might).

Amazing day and can't wait to go again!! Couldn't take many pics as my camera ran out of battery :(. But here is a taster!!



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