Showing posts with label elephants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephants. Show all posts

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Trip to the zoo

Life has been quite busy recently.  Volleyball and school have kept me quite busy.  This week I had practice Monday and Wednesday.  Tuesday I worked late. Thursday we had late dinner with friends. Friday I had 3 volleyball games after school.  I have been working 10 hour days this week... and I am EXHAUSTED!!

I slept for 11 hours Friday night, which was beautiful. I even took a nap later on the afternoon. And still went to bed at a decent time! haha. I still love my sleep :)

Anyway, Saturday we had the privilege of going to the zoo, for the first time, with friends.  Zoos here do not have as many rules, or at least enforced rules, as in America.  We were able to get close, put our hands through cages, feed animals, pet animals, and walk all over the crazily placed exhibits.  My pictures do not reveal everything we saw.  We saw deer, crocodiles, turtles, and other things that I did not take pictures of.  Sadly we did not get to see the giraffes :( We did see lots of monkeys though so Moe was very happy!


Cute little family

PENGUINS!!!

I thought this one was giving a speech...so cute!

friends feeding the penguins!

feeding the penguins from the outside...they were too full for us to go inside

See the one swimming away after getting food

Baby elephant!!

Friends feeding elephants

photo with elephants

More monkeys. 

Moe hit this one in the head throwing bananas at them.  He did catch one though and eat it!!

Moe feeding the orangutan...he was very happy 

Orangutan eating the banana that was thrown!
After the zoo we went and had delicious Japanese food for lunch.  Then Moe and I went to the export store and I was able to buy pants that fit me for the first time in over a year.  I am pumped.  Sadly I only found one pair in the styles that I wanted so I guess I will have to go back again and look for more!!

Overall it was a wonderful day. Today, Sunday, I have work for school to do. I want to cook dinner to have some leftovers for lunches. I hope to keep it a relaxing but productive day! It has already started that way by watching the Buckeyes!!!!!!! Go Bucks!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Elephant Camp!!

Today we went to Maesa Elephant Camp.  We chose this camp from the many others because these elephants PAINT!!!!  That was truly the main thing that we wanted to see and buy, an elephant painted picture.  

We got to watch the elephant show.  The show included elephants helping owners onto them, playing soccer, painting, moving logs, playing harmonicas, bowing, screeching, and other things. It was so fun.  We got to pet them and get pictures taken.  Moe and I both got hats put on us by the elephants! Below are some pictures and videos of our events.  We were thrilled, though we did not spend more than 2 hours there!  We will spend more time when we go with our visitors......









The painting Matt chose

The painting I chose :]

On the way to the camp we saw a strawberry picking patch!