Today I finally bathed an elephant in the river! It wasnt too special, because Im pretty sure the mahouts would let anyone do it as long as they got paid for it. But it was still pretty cool!
I also got to play around with a baby elephant for a bit. Again, nothing too special (as long as you have money) but it was SO cute. I have pictures which I will try to put up sometime this week or next week.
Something that is a little bit special: the mahouts are definitely more comfortable with us being around the elephants now. We have been getting right up next to them when we are working, and Im sure they wouldnt object if we touched them but Im a bit too scared (for my life) to try that.
A lot of the tourists have been coming up and asking us questions about the elephants and about the orphanage, so we must look like we know what we are doing. Either that or we look really, really dirty and smell like elephant poo. Probably a little bit of both.
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