I miss the elephants

It has been 10 months since I was at the Elephant Park in Chiang Mai. I miss the gentle giants. They are actually so loving and warm, not like the stinking image everyone has of them. I bathed them in their pool of dung, yet I didn't feel dirty at all. I felt so comfortable in their company, the elephant assigned to me (arghh, I forgot her name) sat so quietly and let us scrub her. While the baby elephant was having fun spraying water with its trunk, I recalled splashing pails of water at him and he did it back to me!

I saw this photo in Facebook and it touched my heart. I want to be hugging an elephant!