August 8th Trip to the Zoo

Got to love those Chinese rolls!
Please tell me this is not lunch?
Official Chinese Panda

Look at that sweet smile!
We deliver with trucks, they deliver by foot.
KFC a taste of home, kind of!
Newstand

Kentucky Fried Pigeon
Sweet Chongquing girls
Meeting the locals















It was very different than our wonderful St Louis Zoo. We arrived at about 9:00am and it was steaming hot - about 95 degrees and 100% humidity We were all dripping with sweat as soon as we got off the bus. The main attraction of the Chongqing Zoo is the Panda Bears. I have to say their Zoo was kind of depressing. A lot of the animals were dirty and kept in cages’. Their food and water did not look very fresh. The pandas were cute even though they looked dirty so I bought Lily a stuffed one from one of the vendors’.

We arrived back to the hotel around noon, gave Lily a bottle and put her down for a 2 1/2 hour nap She woke up a happy baby so we walked around outside for a while, then had Pizza Hut for dinner. I know you all must think that we are duds for not trying any of the local cuisine. I admit that I am not adventurous in the food area of the trip. We went back to the room and played, had a bottle, bath and bed. It was a good day.



This morning we are going sightseeing to Ci Qi Kou Ancient town. Maybe we will have dinner at one of the nice authentic restaurants here in the hotel. Doug and I are celebrating the halfway mark to coming home.We will be leaving Chongqing Saturday to go to Guangzhou. My next post will be from there.

Here are some notes about Lily...

1. She has a ton of hair; I mean it is like a carpet.
2. She is good about keeping a bow in her hair, but she does not like headbands at all. She gets very fussy when I put them on and will just rip it off.
3. She is teething like crazy and has 2 teeth in on the bottom and 2 more poking in on the top.
4. She is a big Chinese baby, however not as big as an American baby. She can wear some 6 months clothes but mainly wears 9-month clothes.
5. Like the other babies in the group, she wants to feed herself, but struggles with the motor skills and quickly becomes frustrated
6. She has the biggest, sweetest gummy smile I have ever seen.

We are blessed to have her.







Posted by Shannon Laxton

Renee is able to look at your comments on blogger, just not able to post. You all need to give her a hard time about the food. We actually ate fried pigeon and it was yummy! ;)