Guangzhou Zoo

Hudsen, Max, Kaeleb, Emma, Jada and Maddie

Well first I want to share with you our morning, we started as usual with breakfast, and then at 9:30 we meet to take the famous red couch picture ~ this is the picture that every adoption group takes when staying at the White Swan. There is a red couch that they all put the adopted child on and take the picture of all of them together. There was many taken and we manage to get a few good ones, before we had crying babies and two little girls on the end appearing to start a fight between the two of them, not really but they were diffidently checking each other out. Then we headed over the the other famous waterfall and took a group picture ~ thats quite a group. There is 6 families represented in this picture, 7 including me. Of these 6 families, 3 have adopted before, and three are brand new adoptive parents. Two of the families have come with their entire family. Now off to our next destination, can you believe this group of 23 people going to the zoo and staying together as one group.

We went from a 7 passenger van to a 24 passenger bus. Crazy huh, we were so use to being the only one that it seems very weird to us, but we like the change. It is nice being on the Island and seeing people you know or at least know some what. Anyways Rebecca had our zoo visit down to a T. She knew exactly what we would want to see, and said she was friends with all the animals because she sometimes visits the zoo twice a week. Everyone had a great time and then we went to lunch at a local dumpling restaurant. Great more extra pounds.........

The beautiful Tiger

The zoo had the neatest exhibit, the goldfish exhibit. There were many fish tanks with different styles and sizes of fish. They had many different tanks, small and large. They even had squares of glass on the ground that had gold fish in them too. The kids really enjoyed this, plus they got to walk about, so that may have been the cool part, who knows. Kambry was diffidently intrigued by them.

Kaeleb enjoyed them also. He liked to hit the glass.

The typical American black bear.

Yes you guessed it, a Giraffe

At this zoo you were able to get much better shots of the animals then at home. We got lucky when the elephant came out. Now I am sure you are saying ok how boring, we have all those animals at home but what China does have a few animals that we don't have in the states.

This is called a Panda Bear Goldfish.

These are the Golden Hair Monkey, Rebecca said we don't have these in the USA.

Of course we could not go without seeing the famous Panda Bear.

What did I tell you, you don't need a double stroller in China. The cool thing about this picture is that this is the first time that Kaeleb had sat in a stroller. In other good news, he also sat in the high chair through two meals today. WOO HOO Kaeleb!!!!!!!!

Rebecca and Kaeleb watching the elephant.

It was a great day, and we had beautiful weather this morning. Tomorrow we go back to the huge mall, and Rebecca told us to leave our husbands and kids at the hotel. She also told us she would take us to a luggage shop after we shopped. I think Clayton is really scared. Don't worry Clayton, I will watch Connie, but there is no one to watch me. We are also going to take a dinner cruise tomorrow night with the group. I have been told that it is wonderful and the food is good. Tomorrow morning is the Consulate Appt. Clayton and Connie don't actually go to this appt. but we are to wait in our room until Rebecca calls.

Being Sunday we really missed our church family today. It is so great to have a church that supports us and prays for us daily. Thank you Lord for so many blessings. We are so close to coming home, we are really ready to come home and are counting down the days. Blessing to all! Good night from Guangzhou. Love April, Connie, Clayton, Kambry, and Kaeleb.