{Elephants}

One of my favorite animals is the African Elephant.

I think they are adorable.





Ready for your elephant education time?

No, African and Asian Elephants are not the same. Let me explain:



The picture above has both an Asian [left] and African [right] elephant. See the difference?
Here's another picture to help



The Asian elephant has smaller funny shaped ear, a funny mouth, and a funny shaped head. Overall, I think the Asian elephant is just funny looking. They kinda remind me of Robert Ramano - you know - "Everybody loves Raymond" - Ray's brother, the funny looking one. Sorry, but it's kinda true.

The African Elephant is regal and awesome. Plus they are adorable.



Here is Sean and I at the Hogle Zoo this past summer at the African Elephant exhibit. Awesome.



Here are your fun facts about elephants for the day - impress your friends:

*Despite their big ears, elephants do not hear very well
*To make up for their poor hearing, elephants use vibrations from the ground through their feet to "hear"
*Largest land mammal
*Spend about 16 hrs of their day eating
*They can eat around 495 lbs of food a day
*Have the largest brain of the animal kingdom
*Only 4 legged mammal to have all their "knees" bend in the same direction [think about it, you'll get it]
*Elephants can't jump
*Their skin is an inch thick
*Baby elephants sometimes suck on their trunks for comfort [like sucking a thumb]
*Super social creatures
*They prefer one tusk over the other just as people are right handed or left handed

{Waka Waka}

Thanks to Zumba I have had this song stuck in my head all week. I love it. I've been listening to it constantly. Thanks, Jenny!

Waka Waka, Shakira
The music and dancing is awesome.

{Cat Nap}

Oh goodness.

I just woke up from a nap! Incredible! First one in a long long time. Crazy. So, the reason why I got this wonderful nap was because for my work I signed up to take an Excel Advanced Functions Class as per my boss's suggestion. That class started 1 hr and 30 minutes after another one of my classes. I decided it would not be worth my time to walk to work (15 min), work (1 hr), and walk back (15 minutes).

Here is my thought process after that decision:

I should do some reading for one of my classes out of the book Modernity and the Holocaust.
Wait, I'm hungry...maybe I should get some ice cream...
*walk to Wilkinson Building*
Umm, I'm probably not hungry, and I definitely don't need ice cream. Let's be honest, I'm just thirsty
*gets a drink of water*
Humm.... Well, I should probably go to the Memorial Room cause it's really quiet in there and I'll be able to concentrate [Also, it is warm, deadly quiet, has full length couches, and is known as the nap room on campus].
*Walks to Memorial Room*
*Sit down on couch, get out book, lay down to read, fall asleep*
*Sleep*
*Sleep*
*Sleep*
*Sleep*
*Wake up and look at phone for time*
Wow! I am skilled! 5 minutes before the excel class starts!!
*walk to class and make it just in time!!*

And that is how I got that marvelous nap! It was crazy! So wonderful. I did not get to sleep at a decent hour at all last night so this nap saved my life. So nice.