Trip to Thailand

There's a lot of training I need to attend while I'm starting out in my job, and these training tend to be held at different offices around the world. In October, I was in Egypt, and for two weeks in November, I was at some training in Bangkok. It was two weeks of training, but at least there was a weekend in between to see some of the country.

I went with two of my friends from the training to the Kanchanaburi region of Thailand, and the highlight of the trip was the chance to ride and swim with elephants.

At first, the elephants were fitted with small seats, just big enough for two people to sit. The driver sat at the elephant's neck, and we took a quick tour of the park. Afterwards, we bought some bananas and fed them to our elephants.

Once the elephants finished their snacks, we got back on them -- without the seats this time -- and rode down into the river. In the river, the driver alternated between telling the elephant to spray us with his trunk and to roll us off his side into the water. One time, I was able to survive the roll into the river and stay on the elephant's back, but I think that just made the driver more determined to have the elephant dump me. It was great fun.