Ok, are you ready for one of the best stories ever?! I was watching Animal Planet this morning and it was an episode on animal rescues. So this lady who used to work in a circus with an elephant decided to form a sanctuary for elephants who have been in captivity and worked in circuses, many being very abused and badly treaten. She realized that Elephants especially should never be taken from their homes because they are such sensitive creatures. Most of them can acually remember being taken from their families when they were just babies. Most of you know that Elephants are my favorite, so here is the story to tell you why. So as time went on this lady got more and more circus elephants brought to her sanctuary. The first there was the one she brought from her circus, a 30 something old elephant. So one day they brought in this really old elephant who was so badly treated, that it's spine and rib cage was showing. She was 2000 lbs underweight. She was sad and depressed. So they brought her in to a room where all the elephants are, but they are caged off from each other. Right away they could see that she wanted to get near the younger elephant, the 30 something old. So they slowly moved them together, next to each other. Right away they began to get closer and stroke each other with their trunks. Then they started roaring, which basically rocked the whole building. But they weren't mad, it was like they were celebrating this reunion of sorts. All the workers were like what's the deal? So they looked back to their past and found out that about 25 years earlier they had been in the same circus together. The younger elephant had been only a couple years old then and the older about 30 and she had basically adopted this little elephant and taken her in. They remembered each other and their love they gave so long ago! I love it. When they were let out to roam the land, they were never apart. The older elephant would even stand over the younger while she was sleeping to protect her. Isn't that amazing. To remember kindness and love from so long ago and after so much pain, be able to get that back. Oh my gosh, it was just such a sweet story.
ps...we are on our way to hawaii so i won't be posting for a week, i know, i know, you're all so sad:)
Can you believe this golf course cost 10 bucks? Good old Kahuku Golf Course
Enjoying a little Matsumoto's in Haleiwa
The view from our bed, ahhhh Hawaii sleep, can't beat it
PS dos
Beautiful Hawaii, one of our favorite houses from the beach
Ryan's first morning out
Our excellent bonfire on the beach, where we slept that night, until the bum showed up
Actually it was more so the rain that sent us inside:)
Shark's Cove for some snorkel action
And the darling Hawaiian Dogs, basically it's puppy heaven there
