herbiehancock

after our big adventure with the elephants, we spent the last couple days at the hilton in bangkok. we toured the grand palace and emerald buddha, { that glowing thing inside is the emerald buddha, actually made out of jade - he's gorgeous! } took a boat ride, and hung out around the hotel. that night we got to see the most amazing lightning storm i've ever seen from our giant window on the 22nd floor. it felt like we were right there in the clouds with the lightning! {random story which is sort of related - when we were flying into hong kong on our way to thailand our plane was hit by lightning. scary!!} we also got drinks and danced in the beautiful bar at the top of the hilton that night. it was the most romantic way to spend our last night on our honeymoon! the next night we were off to the bangkok airport, which was such a bizarre place! we made it through the security gate to find we were in a mall. and not just an airport with some shops - a full-on MALL, with all ...

okay family, friends, lovely readers... gather round. it's the moment you've all been waiting for. photos from our time with the elephants! let me warn you right now when you spend a few days on a real, working elephant ranch, taking care of and playing with elephants young and old, you tend to take an enormous amount of photographs. then when you look through those photos the next week to try and decide which ones you want to share with the world, you become rather sentimental and have a hard time paring down the numbers. which is precisely what happened to me this week, making this the longest post i've ever written. i hope you enjoy it, but if you think to yourself, "geez this is really freaking long!" i'll understand. i wrote all about our experiences for those of you who are interested in what it's like to have elephants, but feel free to skim if you just like pictures. our time at elephantstay was the best, most magical few days of my life! i w...