Welcome to Bakersfield

Bakersfield as far as I can tell thus far is going to be one boring town. we had the animal walk this morning- i was up at 6 and just got back to the train about 30 minutes ago. the animals are inside again- thank god since it will top 100 everyday. while we were with the animal at the arena, joe, the elephant handler, let me go into one of the pens with 4 elephants and play with them! i about died when he told me i could go in with them. i didnt have a my camera, only my camera phone. but it was pretty neat :) they are so cute! we have the rest of the day off and surprisingly they gave us tomorrow off :) how wonderful. too bad we are in such a lame town. tomorrow is the 4th- i think we are going to try to find somewhere where they will have a fireworks show. well i am going to take a nap for a few hours then get up and explore the town.

chow!