Elephants.

A cool quick random story that I just have to share: On Monday, I landed in Udon Thani International Airport, here in northeast Thailand. Antonia, my new boss, is there to pick me up. She's so nice. We get in the truck for a 50 minute drive to Nongkhai, where I'm living and working. It's a beautiful day. We're chatting. Halfway through the drive, we see an elephant on the side of the road!! There's a guy on top of the elephant and another guy on the ground splashing it with water. As we get closer we see that there's a baby next to the big one!! So amazing!! Antonia joked that they arranged for it to be there for me. She said it's actually pretty awesome because it's pretty rare to see elephants in this part of Thailand. She said they'll see an elephant on the road like that every couple of years. I take it as a good omen of my time here in Nongkhai. Next time I see one, I'll try to recover from my excitement in time to take a picture :)