This morning we ventured out into the extremely humid Guangzhou climate to visit the City Zoo. The zoo is only about 20 minutes from the hotel. This is a first for me, the past two times we have gone to Safari Park, which is nice but it is an hour drive and costs twice as much , it would not have been as enjoyable today in the heat - it takes 4 hours to get through that park, it took only about 2 for the city zoo. For these two littles, that was plenty.
Here are some of the animals we saw:
Yes, these boys can be animals sometimes!
Gottal love babies!
Hippo!
Lots of pelicans
Lions and tigers, and well no bears today - oh my!
A Chinese family next to us shared some of their rice bread. They liked feeding the fish and swans!
Bamboo canopy!
Pandas!!!! The whole reason for coming. Unfortunately, as you can see from the way this one is sitting, it was hot for them too; therefore, they did not do much.
And yes, we traveled half way around the world to see pigs at a China zoo!!!
But ya gotta love piglets!
He really wanted baby's cracker.
Elephants or cool too!
Chinese Zodiac central!
This is mine!
Don't ask me what the monkey is holding - I wasn't for sure.
We and four other families went out to dinner at a local Cantonese restaurant. Our guide ordered food for us. These could have been on the menu.
This is the aftermath. I meant to get befores but they bring each dish out one at a time so that was impossible. There was a Portuguese Pork, Curry Chicken & potatoes, an eggplant & green been spicy stir fry, fried rice, fried noodles, and a Cheesy Portuguese beef dish. They were all pretty good. The meats just tend to be a little fattier than I prefer.
I had to get this picture before I forgot because I have a very similar one of Angel in this elevator from over 7 years ago!
Tomorrow is a very early but important morning!!! At 7:30am we will head to the U.S. Consulate for their citizenship swearing. Their Visa applications will be submitted and we will receive their passports with visas on Friday. As soon as we get them on Friday, at about 4:30pm, we will leave in a van for Hong Kong! Saturday, when they land in Chicago, they will be official U.S. citizens!!!!
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