Melissa and Elisa ride "Lelly"
Lelly was a very greedy greedy elephant who was never satisfied with the bananas we kept feeding to her
the only sensible to cross a river in Chang Mai was by cage
a look at what we were working with
can you find me?
Got back from our trek in the jungle this afternoon- everything went very well, and though the experience was intense, it was well worth it. We drove out of the city to the rain forest, rode elephants for an hours in the pouring tropical rain, went on a very difficult (not even just in my standards) hike up the mountain for 3 hours, getting drenched again at the end of that. We got to a tiny village of the Lahu people, and stayed the night in a hut with mattresses and mosquito nettings-- after being fed a delicious red curry of potatoes and stir fried vegetables with quail eggs, with freshly picked pineapple. The next morning, we went on another hike to a waterfall, which we bathed in, then went water rafting, and drove back to the city. The jungle was unbelievably beautiful, but weirdly enough, because of all the Vietnam War movies I've seen, I just kept waiting for things to blow up or to have to duck from enemy fire. Very weird, I know. Anyway, tomorrow we are taking an all day Thai cooking class so I am very excited about that, and tonight we are going out to a bar to have a good time! So not much time to write more- hope I'll be forgiven. Hope this finds you all very well.
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