Day 13 - Group trip to the Safari

Today was a fantastic day. We took a group trip to Xiangjiang Safari Park Guangzhou. If you've ever had a trip turn out to be much more than you ever expected (as a pleasant surprise) this was one of those times.

We drove in downtown Guangzhou and then around the city (which happens to be the 3rd largest city in China) which gave us an opportunity to see just how big it was....let me tell you, it's big. After about a 45 minute drive, we arrived at the park:

Once we got to inside, we were off to take a tram trip around the safari area. It was a HUGE open space area that took you around the world. The safari area was open with the animals open to roam anywhere they wanted. There were cape buffalo holding traffic up, ostriches pecking at the window of cars, elephants, lions, rare white tigers, to sum it up - there were too many normal zoo animals along with rare endangered animals to mention. Here's a few pictures:

I was able to feed a white tiger cub, Dawn was able to be very close to her favorite animal and Lize was so excited she......:

The good news is that she woke up in time to the see the main attraction (in my opinion) at the safari park, THE GREAT PANDAS. There were 10 of them and it was amazing to see them "doing their thing". I was surprised at how big they are in real life and what they sound like. One of them were biting another and they sound like a dog barking/howling. Just being a few feet from these animals was incredible especially when you consider that it's estimated that only 2,000 remain in the wild. Here's a few pictures:

At the end of a day like today, what else is there to do except go to dinner and then bed. ZACH be advised, there's going to be more pasta eating in our home. Your sister loves pasta..... I know you think that's GREAT!

Today's close brings us one day closer to having our family together again. We love and miss you kids!