I did it!

Yesterday I got myself back on Wan Na Li, though I was anxious and hurting but was determined to get back on. In the afternoon I walked her out to the forest, where she sleeps at night with Te Am but did not ride her there. This morning, we woke up at 6 a.m. and put on our appropriate letters to spell OBAMA and walked out to get the elephants in the forest. The mahouts LOVED it............the love Obama. Te Am had me feed her lots of sugar cane and then we rode back from the forest..............it was magnificent. Not the show, not the tourists, me and Te Am and Wan Na Li in the forest...........with my other elephant friends. This is magnificent. To be in their presence for days............to hear them at night, well not our elephants as they are kept further in the woods so they have more grazing area, but the other tuskers who are kept close.

Yesterday, Jami did a show for the elephants. They were mesmerized. And trumpetted and chirped with her/to her. Last night Jami did a little concert just for the 4 of us. Lovely. This has all been lovely................even the places that have been scary. Such sweet support from my new friends and from the mahouts, who laugh at me and tease and tell me to relax........as they sneak up behind me and pinch me!! It is a wonderful humor. These are my kind of people!!

The softness of their words and tone and gentleness of their touch..........they are, as Richard Lair says 'nature's gentlemen'. So now, they are doing the show and I ducked out. I don't like it.
However, my dear ones, I was able to load the elephant photos to picasa at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/webUpload?uname=kkaushansky&aid=5293576792101000641

so ENJOY......................