You know now that I think about it, maybe the impressions in the mind of a 7 year old were confused, uh screwed up? Our original hotel on Ft. Laud. Beach and almost us silly Ohio tourists had almost been taken out by Hurricane Cleo. I know for a fact that they had a ski show using the flat kites and I also know that they had a skiing elephant at least on the sign. Question is did they have a skiing, kiting elephant??? We may never know for sure.
As you go forth mulling over that question, here's a skiing elephant probably from the same ancient vintage. Wouldn't want to be the guy in the caboose when that pachyderm unloaded some processed hay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Sg-2dlQHY