June 11, 2012

Today was P-day.  We picked up our missionaries and headed to Grahamstown to meet up with the Elders there and the Nye’s, the senior couple to go to an elephant sanctuary. 

The cost was R85 each, which is around $10 in our money.  There we “met” four female elephants that were rescued from another game park where they were destined to be destroyed to keep the population down so the reserve would not be over grazed. 

 

We were given a short lesson on elephants and had them perform for us by following a number of voice instructions given by the trainer.   We then were able to feed them, pat them and feel their tusks.  It was interesting and fun feeding then both in the trunk and right into their mouths.  Everybody got goobered on, at least a little bit!! 

We then went back to Grahamstown for lunch and ate at a Steers restaurant where they were having a two for one burger day!  Anyone who knows us, as the tightwads we are, can guess what we had. That’s right, two for one. 

What a deal.