OMG! I went to Sheldrik, the elephant orphanage in Nairobi. I wanted so badly to sneak one home with me in my purse, but couldn't quite get the logistics down. They are gut-wrenchingly cute and so expressive. The baby ellies played soccer with their keepers and rolled around in the dirt with each other. They were clearly so happy, just like little kids! Such, such a wonderful place.
Also: I thought Dave's tongue would bleed, he was biting it so hard. Too funny.
Am I the only one who cried? The mother's desperate cry as she tries to get it to breathe. And then her attempts to wrap the lifeless trunk of the baby around her own so she could lift it? Gawd, I wanted to give her thumbs.
@curiousgeorgiana: Oh god no. I was starting to get teary when it was clear the baby wasn't breathing, but I freaking LOST IT when she cried out and really began to get frantic.
Then it was okay, and there was lots of squeeing watching the awkward baby elephant flail around and try to walk.
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Also: I thought Dave's tongue would bleed, he was biting it so hard. Too funny.
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brave mom. brave baby.
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Then it was okay, and there was lots of squeeing watching the awkward baby elephant flail around and try to walk.
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Then again, the Pink Elephants on Parade scene (drunken hallucinations)scared the shit out of me and stil does.
Finally, years later I learned that the crows were racist charicatures, so there goes my favorte song, When I See and Elephant Fly.
So yeah.. Now I can never ever enjoy Dumbo.
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Anyone out there cry who's NOT pregnant?
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See attached link. Also: your go-to guilt trip has just been nullified. Sorry.
xoxo,
me
08/13/09
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye.
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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I feel a bit embarrassed that I initially thought it was someone with Darth Maul face.
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Who traveled on a barge
In fact he was the roughest cat
That ever roamed at large
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Highlighting such a noble cause, that is.
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