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The second day of our time at BLES we was up at 6.30 to do the banana run so we met Mags and Fah at the breakfast hut and climbed into the truck for our journey to one of the Mahots home to collect bananas for the elephants. It seemed to take forever when Fah told us we was going to the petrol station. Well we was expecting to pull up outside a Shell or BP garage instead we parked up in a shop front with an old fashioned pump, think I have put a photo on face book. This is where we experienced our first taste of Birdy coffee, ice cold coffee in a can, delicious. So we set off to collect the bananas. Lee, Fah and the Mahot climbed out of truck and filled it up with bananas for the elephants breakfast. So we returned had our breakfast and just spent ages in the hut watching the elephants come down and play in the water. I forgot to mention the day we arrived and first had lunch on the hut, our first meeting with Mee Chuk, Lom and I can't remember the other elephants name was total chaos, the three elephants came charging down the hill Mee Chok being the smallest and just grabbed all the food off the deck, one picked up the sugar bowl and just swallowed it, the Mahot ran after the elephant to get the sugar bowl back. It didn't matter whether we had finished our lunch the elephants took it anyway. It was crazy I just lay back and laughed my head off, they just caused all this caos then left it was so funny. We then went for a morning walk and again spent a wonderful morning meeting the elephants in their wonderful environment of BLES. We had to go into the village to a coffee shop as the Internet at BLES was down so Katherine, Arron, Mags and I got into the trick, Fah was driving so Lee had to sit in the back. We timed it so we could pick Hope and Noah up from school and when they saw Lee in the back they wanted to join him, so they climbed in. Lee said he was terrified that Noah was going to fall out he was hanging onto him so tightly whilst Hope was sitting chatting away to him telling all about when she grows up and wants look after animals and make sure there were no chains or hooks anymore. We had another lovely afternoon until Anon came riding down the hill riding Tong Jai magnificent male elephant, I got up to take a photo and fell through the deck they had to pull me out. So again I ended up with more bruises. It was so embarrassing and as everyone was making a fuss and asking if was ok Hope asked Katherine at the house had I had too much whiskey and beer, I told her i had too many chocolate brownies, "was you big and fat like an elephant" she said, yes I replied, Hope then said that was the funniest the thing she had ever heard and would remember it for the rest of her. Another lovely evening spent chatting to Katherine and Mags whilst Anon sat cuddling Arron and Lee played exhaustingly with Hope and Noah again. Whilst I had sat tending my wounds the mozzis decided to have a go so not only was I coverd in bruises you could do dot to dot on my feet with the amount of bites I had.
Although Katherine had invited us to stay longer which we would have loved to have stayed but we had to get to back to Chaing mai and sort out renewing our visas. I felt battered and bruised and covered in bites so Katherine and Anon offered to take us to Utraditt so we could catch the bus to Chiang mai. It was a very emotional morning, we got up early sat in the breakfast hut and watched the elephants come down and play in the water, I felt sad that it was last time we would sit there and experience the most wonderful site of watching these magnificent elephants in this magical environment. So we said goodbye to Hope and Noah before they left for school, they gave us wonderful hugs as if they had know us for a long time. We had an emotional goodbye with Katherine and Anon and i had a lovely last cuddled with Arron at the bus station before we left.
We were moving on again back to Chiang mai to prepare for our border crossing.
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