PHOTO FRIDAY: SMELL SOMETHING?

A curious baby elephant takes a strong sniff of the camera lens during our visit to the Elephant Village near Luang Prabang. An elephant's trunk is one impressive sniffer--it's sensitive enough to pick up a blade of grass yet strong enough to uproot a small tree, not to mention it's ability to suck up a few gallons of water to drench a clueless photographer who gets a little too close. Oops. 

Weirdest elephant fact: These mighty pachyderms don't perspire...except between their toes.

PHOTO FRIDAY BONUS: IN THE LAND OF THE KIP

Kip has always imagined that having more Kips around might be fun. Liz, on the other hand, is quite certain one Kip is more than enough. 

But one million Kips?!  

Only in Laos...where the currency is actually called "the kip," could this be possible. Above, Kip holds up a cool million...kip. 

We've always imagined what life would be like as millionaires. At the current exchange rate of 8,000 kip to the dollar, now we know. Sort of.