chaing mai

today we got up early and got in this red truck taxi. it took an hour to get to the elephant park. when we finally got there we saw lots of elephants and water buffalo. there must have been 30 elephant's. one of them had a 6 day old baby. it was so small. it was probably up to my waist. we got to feed it bananas. one of the first things we did there was ride the bigger elephants. it was so much fun, and it reminded me of riding camels in the desert. we rode through the river then along up to the park. all together the ride was 45 minutes long. after we got back we took an ox cart to the show grounds and we watched an elephant show. it was very neat. my favorite thing they did was whet the biggest one played soccer with his trainer.the elephant was very good and he scored once.after the show we did the rice and water buffalo tour. it was a lot of fun. i got to ride a water buffalo. it was a lot of fun. after that we did the rice tour. they showed us how they harvested rice before tractors. i got to do all the steps. then we tried some that we threshed and picked. it was very good. after that i got to shoot an old fashion cross bow that was hand made it was a lot of fun until this stupid German lady (a perfect wife for creepy German man, that we met in Spain!) pretended to try and shoot her friend which in the meantime she almost shot us! after a lot of yelling and giving her crap she put it down. after we went rafting down the river on a bamboo raft. it was a lot of fun. one of the guys in front of us on a different boat almost sunk it because he was so big. at the end we got in our red truck and went to the long necked peoples village. it was amazing how long their  necks were. they said if they didn't wear their rings that were around their necks then they could die because their neck might collapse. there the people all made hand made things and i bought a hand made cross bow. to bad it was so small. but it has to be to fit in our bags.when we got back we visited the kids a bit then we came back to our room and now we are going to bed soon.