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Evan: Today we went to the Amber Fort! The Amber Fort has many many other forts to guard. We rode an elephant up to the fort! It was really bumpy. I felt like I was going to fall off. Our elephant was a girl elephant named Jhumpa. All the riding elephants are female because they are more gentle. At the Amber Fort the queen had a wheelchair for when she was wearing too much makeup and her clothes were too heavy. We also saw hooks on the ceiling for the king’s throne to swing from.
Andrew: Today we went to the Amber Fort. We met up with our friends Mr. and Mrs. Ross, who are also adopting from the same orphanage that we are. Their baby’s name is Devi. We were going to take a taxi to the Amber Fort, but instead we all crammed into an auto-rickshaw. Mrs. Ross, my mom and my dad sat on the main bench, and there was a teeny bench facing them that Evan and I sat on (no backrest – ouch!). Mr. Ross sat in the back storage area (no door). It turned out the driver knew a guide at the Amber Fort. We met up with our guide and took an elephant ride up to the Amber Fort. It was soooo cool. Our elephant’s name was Jhumpa. It was a female. There are no working male elephants since they are too aggressive. They do have male working elephants in the city streets, and we saw one today. The Amber Fort was sooo interesting. The second king that occupied this fort had 12 wives. There were secret passages throughout the fort. The fort was beautifully decorated on the inside, and the outside looked ready for action in case of any military attacks. Some of the inside paintings were 400 years old, since they used natural dyes which will never come off. There is a room with a lot of teeny pieces of mirrors in it, it was the queen’s winter quarters, and when you lit one candle the whole room warmed up and lit up.
Evan: Today we went to the Amber Fort! The Amber Fort has many many other forts to guard. We rode an elephant up to the fort! It was really bumpy. I felt like I was going to fall off. Our elephant was a girl elephant named Jhumpa. All the riding elephants are female because they are more gentle. At the Amber Fort the queen had a wheelchair for when she was wearing too much makeup and her clothes were too heavy. We also saw hooks on the ceiling for the king’s throne to swing from.
Andrew: Today we went to the Amber Fort. We met up with our friends Mr. and Mrs. Ross, who are also adopting from the same orphanage that we are. Their baby’s name is Devi. We were going to take a taxi to the Amber Fort, but instead we all crammed into an auto-rickshaw. Mrs. Ross, my mom and my dad sat on the main bench, and there was a teeny bench facing them that Evan and I sat on (no backrest – ouch!). Mr. Ross sat in the back storage area (no door). It turned out the driver knew a guide at the Amber Fort. We met up with our guide and took an elephant ride up to the Amber Fort. It was soooo cool. Our elephant’s name was Jhumpa. It was a female. There are no working male elephants since they are too aggressive. They do have male working elephants in the city streets, and we saw one today. The Amber Fort was sooo interesting. The second king that occupied this fort had 12 wives. There were secret passages throughout the fort. The fort was beautifully decorated on the inside, and the outside looked ready for action in case of any military attacks. Some of the inside paintings were 400 years old, since they used natural dyes which will never come off. There is a room with a lot of teeny pieces of mirrors in it, it was the queen’s winter quarters, and when you lit one candle the whole room warmed up and lit up.
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