Well, we made it back to NYC after 48 hours of travel. We had some photo casualties, but many seem to have come out fine. The elepant trekking was amazing. It was a place deep in the jungle that protects elephants formally used for labor. We got to get into water with them and wash them (really amazing...elephants don't smell, go figure). Then Matt and I jumped (literally) on the back of the largest elephant they had and walked back to the main area at the reserve. We were SO high up! Amazing! Then they hooked the elephants up with a proper seat and we were off on our trek. We've got tons of great photos.
I also forgot to tell a great story from Lao. When we went tubing down the river in Vang Viang we were turning a corner and Matt was ahead of me and yelled to paddle myself to the left because of an obstruction in the river. So as I rounded the corner...I saw a heard of water buffalo! Our first time seeing water buffalo and we were in the river with them! They are absolutely the funniest animals. When the sit in the water they leave just their noses out so that they an breath...so it wasn't until some of them started to stand up that we saw just how large they were! And they are enormous! Bigger than a large cow! What a hoot that was!
We'll post a link to the pics as soon as we're able. Unfortunately, the photos from Bangkok were the casualties--all of our pics of the markets etc. Matt's beside himself. We checked the memory card in our baggage and it got erased by the x-ray machines...don't make the same mistake!
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