Boy's, This is the best day that I have had during the long time that I have been away from you guy's. We went to Khao yai National Park in the middle of Thailand, about 2 hours away from where I am staying. We had a blast! This picture is of live elephants who are right next to the road, we watched them eat their dinner? I took a good video of them, but will have to show you when I get home. If you have seen some of these pictures already, make sure that you show them and explain them to Emma cause I don't know if she remembers who I am or knows where I am or what I am doing...
We saw monkeys as well, these guys are right along the road, they are sitting on the guard rail watching the cars whiz by.
Jungle scenery, you will see lots of this on this blog…I liked it so I took lots of pictures.
We road in the back of the pickup truck through the National Park, we were all sweaty from the hike, but we were all dry after that ride.
That is Mr. Newman on the left and Mr. McManigle on the right…cool waterfall in the back.
You can see Mr. McManigle on the right of the waterfall, it will help you realize how large the waterfall is…he isn't even close to the waterfall, so he would be even smaller if he was standing right next to it.
This is the viewing platform for the waterfall, you aren't supposed to leave the viewing platform cause it is too steep…but we had to see the different views that they had away from the waterfall.
More cool jungle scenery…loooove this shot cause it shows how steep the canyons are!
More waterfall, have you seen enough???
The last picture was looking up at the waterfall, this one is looking down at the bottom of the waterfall, it was huge! We are really high up above the bottom of the waterfall, it gave me goosebumps just looking over the cliff.
If you pretend you are water, this is what you would see just before you took a really far fall into the pool below and then fell another couple of hundred feet…I think it would be fun to be water for the ride down…then it might get a little boring in the lake, but the waterfall would be cool!
You can see Mr. McManigle and Mr. Newman in this picture…they are soooo small compared to this huge valley that we are in.
I like this picture cause you can see the sky and the bottom of the waterfall, it shows you how tall it is.
This one was fun to take cause I had only 10 seconds to make it from pushing the button on the camera across a couple of boulders and sit before the camera went off. I don't think I made it on the first try...
Tired of waterfalls yet?
This is the signs telling you what you can and cannot do while at the waterfall…what do you think the pictures mean? I want to hear your interpretations of the signs cause I know what I think they mean, but want to hear your idea's. For instance, the sign on the top right means, "dogs and cats can't live together!"
Is this part of a tree or a chain?
Here is a water monitor sitting by the side of the road…we barely saw him cause we were driving and not paying attention. His name is Igor, I asked him.
"Ling noi ting tong!!" Doesn't it look like he is reading a book and being studious? I think that is hilarious!
This is from the mouth of another waterfall that we saw while we were in the National Park. I love the trees and the jungle…I couldn't stop singing songs from the Jungle Book while we were out hiking…"look for the bear necessities, those simple bear necessities, forget about your worries and your strife…"
We went spleunking in Thailand as well. This cave is only about 2 feet tall and the water runs over the top of us into the waterfall to my right.
this is the quiet stream in the middle of the jungle that is really peaceful until a huge snake drops out of the tree branch above your head or a crocodile jumps out of the water snapping his jaws at you or a tiger jumps out from the under-brush and charges at you or…you get the picture…I was all by myself for this part of the walk and loved every minute of it.
Who knows what is living under the trees further down the river…or right behind me!
Remember seeing these mushrooms on the Planet Earth dvd's that you don't like to watch but I love to watch? This is a live real one that I got to see, thought you might remember it.
Me next to another waterfall…boring!
I think the distance from the top to the bottom of this one is about 30 feet, would be fun to jump off if you were allowed to go swimming at this watering hole.
This is the scenery from the top of the mountains…it started to rain when we got there and just made for a more enjoyable day cause the clouds blocked the sun and kept us wet for a while.
That is Mr. Warman (you go to his house a lot these day's) in front of a Thai "Alpha Jet"…it is a bomb dropper…and goes pretty slow.
This is me standing next to a UH-1Z Huey, Dedo used to fly these helicopters when I was your age, but back then they only had 2 rotor blades and one engine and were quite lighter.
Here I am next to a L-39, most of these were made in the Czech Republic where I used to live before I met your gorgeous mother and got married.
Well, that is the end of my adventures for the saturday…I will hopefully have some more pictures of stuff that we have done since we have been here, but i have to track down other people and get the pictures from them so it might be a while. I love you boy's…I couldn't stop thinking while I was out in the jungle how much fun it would be if you all were with me and we could go exploring together with the tigers and snakes!!! Love you and take good care of Mom and Emma for me!
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