Back in Sunny California

After a long summer we are back in cali for our last 2 cities until we make our way over to the east coast. washington was beautiful-i was sad to leave the state. peta was all over us as usual- this time they even called in bomb threats to the building hoping that the shows would be cancelled. we got them on video tape saying that they would rather the elephants be roaming free in asia and be killed for their ivory than to live in the circus with us. they also found our stock cars where we house the animals during train runs, and with spray paint wrote: "animal abusers" all over the cars. CRAZY PEOPLE! we had a long train run back down the coast- beautful! i took a lot of pictures yesterday- we were going in mountains and riding alongside enormous valley's. early this morning we arrived in stockton, cali. we had a nice 3 mile animal walk at 6am. what a way to start the day. lucky me, i get to walk one of the crazy arabians. after 2 days on the train, shamal was quite rowdy. he went on his hind legs several times and got me all scratched and bruised. so much for having nice skin for the wedding next weekend! and speaking of the wedding- i fly home tuesday! I CANNOT WAIT! i need a break :) tomorrow is opening day- i am back at the train now- ready to take a nap!