6/27/08 Not Much Going On...

....since the Escapade doesn't officially start until tomorrow. We hung around our site, meeting new neighbors, catching up with old friends and pretty much passing the time until the big kickoff.

Since there really isn't anything to report I thought I'd take this time to share an amazing story my forever friend, Dianne, shared with me.

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from
Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young
bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant to be
seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one
knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply
embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood
out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his
teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures
turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son, Cameron, were standing.
The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground,
then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly,
all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter
couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his
courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He
walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant
trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed his
stupid ass against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

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That's it for today!