The elephant ride.....

Quite possibly the funnest thing ever! After we left the elephant camp, our tour guide took us to a place that wasn't for tourists. They had elephant rides at the camp but ours were "authenic". The had some rice farmers ride us around on their "work elephants". Amazing! I kept having to tell myself, "I'm really on an elephant with a rice farmer sitting on it's head steering by the ear somewhere in a jungly area in Thailand!" Just surreal. The scenery was beautiful. Honestly, it was a little scary at times but we trusted in our barefoot farmer who couldn't speak a word of English, for some reason. Well, maybe they were the farmer's sons. They looked about 15 and kept getting off the elpehants to roll smokes!
Rollar coaster?
Look how close they were to the edge in this next one and how much Whitney is squishing Evan!


L.D, Pin and Angelina waiting for us.
Their "driver" let Evan be in charge for awhile. He loved it! Truly, this was the chance of a lifetime. We had a blast and would do it again tomorrow if we could!