Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I love elephants. I got to play with them this past weekend and it was kind of sort of awesome. The place we went to was called the Elephant Sanctuary where they have, at the moment, I think six elephants and all of them are rescues that they plan to reintroduce into the wild, which personally I think is stellar. The two I got up close and personal with were Timba and I can’t remember the girl’s name, but she is 18 and super sweet.
And now for some fun facts about elephants:
- Males are called bulls and females are cows
- The female leads packs with the kids in between
- They actually do hold each other’s tales with their trunks, it’s their way of holding hands
- Elephants are migratory animals so as much as I want one they would make terrible pets unless I wanted to migrate with them day to day (that sounds nice )
- When an elephant dies the other elephants burry them and then in a year’s time they return to that spot
- Elephants talk to each other by making a kind of gurgling sound
- They pass on information from generation to generation which is how the new moms know how to care for their young and they know which plants to eat
- Elephants can cry but not from their eyes their tear ducts are between their ears and their eyes
- They have two eye lids one up and down and one side to side
- I love them.
: )
So that really all I have to say for this week other than I finished Water for Elephants and then I found out its being made into a movie. Now the fact that it’s being made into a movie I have no problem with, it’s the cast. Robert Pattinson playing the lead role as Charlie O’Brien if he butchers it I will sue and or cry. However, Reece Witherspoon is playing opposite him, and that I am pumped for.
My momma has fully planned out our trip to Cape Town. It’s a 7 day trip starting with a drive from our house in Pretoria to Cape Point and then an adventure from there. I’m super pumped and not sorry at all that I’m missing the awful weather in KC. Although, my stomach has officially started to peel from my sun burn from like two weeks ago and I sunburned my calves today…
And don’t get upset with me for missing this blizzard… I’m going to college in Wyoming, suck it up… even if I can’t and or wont….
