Elephant bathing

Wrestling Orphan Elephants - can you get any cuter?

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April 5th 2011
Today started with a lie but also the invention for a new family character, "Sri Lankan Lion". Daughter #1 was not being co-operative eating her breakfast, so I told her that in Sri Lanka, they have lions waiting outside that peek through the windows and spy on naughty children who don't eat their food. I left it to her imagination to extrapolate that the lions then eat the children. Somehow break ... read more

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The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa... ... read more