--- title: Feel Good Friday: 14 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend description: From inflatable toads to Taiwanese "frog men", here's a handful of photos to get your weekend started right canonical: https://time.com/3031151/feel-good-friday-photos-6/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-25T12:00:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:07.564Z og:title: Feel Good Friday: 12 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend og:description: From inflatable toads to Taiwanese "frog men", here's a handful of photos to get your weekend started right og:url: https://time.com/3031151/feel-good-friday-photos-6/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c2c067fbdf63725/69869d56810bbb3badc92c48/20140725_zaf_pr2_010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Upside Down House In Russia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Feel Good Friday: 12 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend twitter:description: From inflatable toads to Taiwanese "frog men", here's a handful of photos to get your weekend started right twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c2c067fbdf63725/69869d56810bbb3badc92c48/20140725_zaf_pr2_010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Feel Good Friday: 14 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend (25 Jul 2014) > Sponsored content. 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Andrey Pronin—Zuma Press by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 25, 2014 12:00 PM UTC  Xiong Chaoyong of the local Asian elephant breeding center poses with a wild elephant in the Wild Elephant Valley in Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan province, 21 June 2014. Imaginechina/AP  A giant inflatable toad is seen floating on a lake at the Yuyuantan Park in Beijing, July 19, 2014. Reuters  A visitor poses in an upside-down house, in St.Petersburg, Russia, where the floor becomes the ceiling and furniture appears to defy gravity, July 25, 2014. Andrey Pronin—Zuma Press  Volunteers watch flamingo chicks being released at the Fuente de Piedra lake, 70 kilometres from Malaga, Spain on July 19, 2014. Jorge Guerrero—AFP/Getty Images  David Dinsmore of the U.S. competes during the men's 10 metre semi-final platform event at the 19th FINA Diving World Cup in Shanghai on July 20, 2014. 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Karl-Josef Hildenbrand—EPA  A training session at the 'Tony Parker Camp', a teen summer basketball camp in Villeurbanne, France, on July 21, 2014. Pascal Fayolle—Sipa Press  Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland looks at the trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Hoylake, near Liverpool, Britain on July 20, 2014. Facundo Arrizabalga—EPA  Tosta, a Staffordshire bull terrier cross, shakes off water after a swim in the sea during a hot summer day by Brighton pier in southern England on July 23, 2014. 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