Boy meets elephant - 9 July

J made friends with an elephant or two today.

In fact there were a hundred or so around at the “elephant orphanage“ , all of which he decided to name “Jack”.

Three Jacks came to say hello in particular, and J fed them giant “olives” that were growing around the café in which we were sitting.

All a little nerve wracking - those trunks are strong, and we moved away when a mother an her one month old baby came closer.

A cliché I know, but it can so much more fun looking at world through the eyes of a 4 year old. Even a fairly tacky tourist “cultural dance” in Kandy where we sat amongst white faces than we have seen since we got here, is imbued with a new sense of wonder when the dancers with masks are like real monsters to J, or you have never seen the fire walkers before.

Then to our distinctly “old school” hotel, complete with wood paneled billiards room. And we had to teach J how to use a 1970s phone.