Phuket, Thailand - Day 2

Today wasn't quite as rainy (for most of the day), so we thought it would be fun to rent some scooters and cruise around to see the town.  The boys had so much fun and thought it was pretty cool.  Honestly, I was nervous, but it was fun.

 Then in the afternoon, we went to do a little elephant trekking. First, though we got to meet some baby elephants.  As you can see from the picture, Taylor was less than happy with the proximity.  The funny thing is that the picture right before this, the other elephant in the background had it's trunk on Taylor and so he was freaking out.  Poor kid was not loving it.  I think it is pretty awesome to be able to get so close to these amazing animals.  There is just something about them.

 After these little babies did some tricks and harmonica playing, we got to feed them some bananas.

 Then pictures on this seriously stinky water buffalo.  I was surprised, though that it's skin is slick with just some whiskery hairs growing.  Weird.

 Then, the main event....elephant trekking.  We got to ride through the jungle for about half an hour.  It really is a cool experience to do that.  After a while, Drew got to ride on the neck.  He was a little unsure at first, especially when it started moving, but he ended up loving it!

 We finished it off with an ox cart ride, noodle lunch and a short demonstration on how to harvest rubber from the rubber trees.  It was a seriously fun afternoon.

Then back out on our scooters...to get more Thai pancakes.  Really, you should try them before you judge.

 Oh, and we made a little stop at the market to look around and buy me some new flip-flops.  Turns out scooters and flip-flops are not the best of friends.  Then we went to get some more amazing Thai food.  Olsen stole Scott's coconut and was loving it.  He also was getting a lot of attention from the staff.  Anyhow, another wonderful day in Thailand!