Dumbo's Family

Before the doors opened for the circus, everyone was allowed to go visit the animals. Alex wasn't impressed by the white miniature horses, or by the white big horses. He wasn't impressed by the sleeping tigers, or by the white one that kept pacing back and forth.

But he WAS impressed by the elephants!

We got to watch them playing with little logs, and eating, and relieving themselves (they peed in buckets!!!), sitting on each other, and even cooling off by throwing sand on their backs.

Alex got to compare his foot with an elephant's - obviously it was fake! And he was totally grossed out when I explained that "the rock" was an elephant's tooth - yeah, the kind that was once in an elephant's mouth.