Safari

Today was another free day, and this morning we ventured out with the Walling family in a taxi to a "Carrefour" store, which was a multi-level variety store. It had everything from TVs to groceries. We didn't really need anything, but it was fun to look. A lot of stuff we recognized - it was funny to see it with Chinese characters instead of English labels. We ate lunch at Papa John's pizza before we headed back.




We are becoming veterans of Chinese cabs:














It was Logan's turn to ride in front:

























Leah got her first pair of sunglasses. She loved them:










After a cab ride back to the motel, we took a van with the Wallings to the Xiangjiang Safari Park. It was amazing, and the best zoo we'd ever been to. There was hardly anyone there, maybe because it was a Tuesday; maybe because it was 98 degrees. It was HOT, but we drank lots of water and rented a stroller for Leah. We took a "train" ride through part of the park - Leah's word of the day was "camel." Then we walked for another couple of hours, and saw some hilarious squirrel monkeys wrestling (they reminded me of two boys I know), and we got to feed bananas to the elephants. It was a great day.



Throwing bananas:






































The boys got to feed a baby tiger:






































We cooled off in the rooftop pool after we got back and had something to eat. It was beautiful up there at night with all of the city lights.

I saw on the news tonight that Tropical Storm Fengshen is expected to make landfall in southern China tomorrow. The storm is supposed to be 70 miles away from here - the forecast for Guangzhou is for 40 mph winds but no problems. As long as it's over by the time our flight leaves on Friday....