We took a fairly slow this morning figuring out what to do for the day. We decided on riding elephants in the ocean like John, Brent and Rose had seen yesterday. When we got to the place where you sign up they told us it wouldn’t be till five so we had about 4 or 5 hours. There was an elephant there that we got to feed before we left. We went to the beach located by the Noon restaurant, which was the same beach that John, Rose, and Brent had climbed on the rocks to get to yesterday. It was a really quiet beach but gorgeous. There were little to no rocks in the water. We didn’t bring our snorkeling gear, which worked out perfect because there was nothing to see. Instead we had contests to who could hold their breath the longest or walk on their hands the longest or stay in the same spot as the waves came in and out. After we all had enough water time we walked back up to the Noon restaurant that we had parked at and ate a really late lunch there. We were all in the mood for American food so cheeseburgers it was. We each got one and a smoothie. It was delish even though the hamburger bun was whole wheat bread. J After that we still had a bit of time so we drove back to our place and got cleaned up before heading back to watch John and Rose ride the elephants. The rest of us decided we had already gotten to do it once and that was good enough for now. They got to ride them bareback for their bath time basically. There was one Thai with each elephant. Rose and John each got their own elephant and then another couple shared one. They constantly would make the elephant kneel down in the water and stand back up which looked like it created quite the workout for the abs. It lasted for ½ an hour. We got to see a 3-year-old elephant that was about ½ the size of the rest of them. So adorable! We headed back to our place and didn’t quite make it. Bruce and I manage to have a problem with picking the slowest mopeds. This is the third moped since we got to Koh Lanta and every time it is still slower than Brent’s or John and Rose’s. There is a governor on ours so most the time we drive around with it maxed out. Anyways we had forgotten to fuel up and ran out of gas. Thankfully John and Rose were behind us but Brent was long since gone. They headed into town to try and find some gas. In the mean time to Thai ladies stopped by and wanted to help us out. They were so sweet! Didn’t know a word of English but told us we could hop on and she would take us to get gas. We had to explain it probably 5 times before they caught on to the fact that we had friends bringing us back some gas. They took off but then after John and Rose got back and we were pouring the gas in the same lady drove back by and waived and yelled. Then 2 min later she went by again. Looked like she drove back to double check we had been taken care of. So sweet!! Once again we got ready and went to supper after it got dark. On the way to supper we signed up for cooking classes for tomorrow morning. After dinner we decided to walk down the beach and find a place to stop for drinks. There was a pretty nice hotel with a good restaurant that we decided to stop at. We all got a drink and laid on mats in the sand. A guy came along selling the lanterns and we had to get one so John and Rose could see how it worked. He had a permanent marker that you could use to write on it. They haven’t offered this with either of the other two times we have done it so that was pretty cool. We all signed our names and he offered to take group pictures for us. Shortly after this it started to pour so they hurried everyone inside till it passed. It took quite a while to stop raining but once it did we headed in for the night.
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