First of all, sorry it's been so long since we've posted.
When we arrived in Chiang Mai I told Brad we needed to get a taxi meter because I didn't want to end up in a mystery car like we did in Bangkok. That's how we found Joe, he spoke English and had a SUV which we needed for all of our luggage. On our way to our hotel, he asked what we had in mind for outings while in Chiang Mai. We chatted and he just seemed really nice so we decided we would have him take us to the Elephant camp Tuesday. Joe is very trusting because he said we could pay him at the end of Tuesday for both the ride from the airport and all day Tuesday. After Joe dropped us off Brad and I walked towards the night market area just to see what we were in for later that night. We had dinner at a German restaurant and then went for a massage before actually heading our for a fun evening of shopping. We shopped until after midnight and then headed back to the hotel, there was so much to see and so much to buy.
Tuesday morning came early and we were off with Joe to the elephant camp. There were maybe 2 or 3 other families at the elephant camp so we had a lot of time with the elephants without having to wait. First we got to see the 2 youngest elephants with their moms and feed them sugar cane and bananas. They were so cute! Then we went to the elephant show where the elephants showed us their parade, 
sat down and said "sawadeekaa" which is hello, 
played soccer, showed us how elephants help Thai people with clearing the forests, how to get their caretakers on and off of the elephants and last but not least, watched Suda paint a picture with her trunk. 
We had to buy the painting, how cool is it to say you have the painting you watched her paint. After the elephant show we went for our elephant ride, we sat on the chair on the elephant's back and the trainer sat on the neck. We even had a baby following next to her mom on our trek, sooo cute! 
After our trek we rode in an ox cart with an English man and his 2 sons back up to the main part of the park. The younger of the 2 sons even got to drive the ox cart for a while, I think I thought that was cuter than Brad did. After the ox carts was lunch (well really lunch was after buying a disposable camera because the battery died on our camera), a Thai buffet, very good. Brad had these colorful jelly balls with coconut milk, although he said the jelly balls had no flavor, they did look pretty. :) Then it was time for the bamboo raft ride. Brad and I were the first ones to get on our raft so we were alone except for our raft captains. It was not anything like rafting here in Colorado. 
On the way back from the elephant park we stopped at a monkey show, 
to see the hilltop tribe of the long necks, 
and at Tiger Kingdom where we ended up meeting 2 month old tigers, 
4 month old lions,
8 month old tigers,
and 14 month old tigers.
sat down and said "sawadeekaa" which is hello, played soccer, showed us how elephants help Thai people with clearing the forests, how to get their caretakers on and off of the elephants and last but not least, watched Suda paint a picture with her trunk. We had to buy the painting, how cool is it to say you have the painting you watched her paint. After the elephant show we went for our elephant ride, we sat on the chair on the elephant's back and the trainer sat on the neck. We even had a baby following next to her mom on our trek, sooo cute! After our trek we rode in an ox cart with an English man and his 2 sons back up to the main part of the park. The younger of the 2 sons even got to drive the ox cart for a while, I think I thought that was cuter than Brad did. After the ox carts was lunch (well really lunch was after buying a disposable camera because the battery died on our camera), a Thai buffet, very good. Brad had these colorful jelly balls with coconut milk, although he said the jelly balls had no flavor, they did look pretty. :) Then it was time for the bamboo raft ride. Brad and I were the first ones to get on our raft so we were alone except for our raft captains. It was not anything like rafting here in Colorado. On the way back from the elephant park we stopped at a monkey show, to see the hilltop tribe of the long necks, and at Tiger Kingdom where we ended up meeting 2 month old tigers, 4 month old lions,
8 month old tigers,
and 14 month old tigers.Brad and I ended our Tuesday with dinner at a restaurant suggested by Joe and another long evening of shopping.
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