We booked a full-day, 4-in-1 excursion with the tour company across the street from the Pinnacle.  The 4-in-1 translated to basically a lot of riding: 4-wheeler riding, zip line riding, waterfall riding, roof-top riding, and...wait for it...elephant riding.  It was an awesome day, so I'm not complaining, just explaining.  But this will probably sound a little like complaining, I'm sure.

The 4 wheeler just had no get up & go, but it was still fun to fart around on the things.  I mean, we were riding 4 wheelers through the jungle!!!

It's really hard to get excited about a zip line like this after the one we went on in Costa Rica, but there was one part when we were on an Indiana Jones type bridge/ladder that was super scary awesome.

The waterfall was beautiful, and there was a really nice hike to get up to it.  The "waterfall riding," however, ended being a water slide built into the side of the mountain just down the stream from the falls.  It was super painful and super fun.  I only did it once, and that was definitely NOT because I would have had to pay for another go.  That thing shot me out at about the speed of @#$%-ing OUCH!!

The elephant ride was pretty conflicting.  On the one hand, it was fun, interesting, exotic, scary, and a very must-do Thai tourist activity.  On the other hand, the hooks they used "steer" and "train" the elephants looked quite sharp and menacing.  So we have these beautiful animals being exploited and submitted to what some would consider torture.  But one could also consider the alternative of being hunted to extinction, and these elephants are given plenty of water (supposedly), food, exercise, and better jobs than many humans have for sure.  We find ourselves conflicted on the subject and most definitely need more information; but, just as we've decided with cruise ships, we'll most likely not participate in the activity again (after we do the Caribbean, that is ;).

The craziest part was that we ended up finishing this day with plenty of day left.  And we did not waste it.