Thursday Tourism

Today we visited Panda World!  There are pandas living in an exhibit just five minutes from our hotel right in the middle of the city.  Our tour started with a red panda show where the workers had one red panda do a number of tricks.  It was hilarious and Lottie seemed to enjoy it!

 

 

We walked on to see the traditional pandas.  There were probably a total of 5 all in separate exhibits. Our guide told us they used to do shows with them too, but now they are just "fat and lazy."  It was still neat for us to see because neither of us had seen pandas before.
 

 

After nap time, we took Lottie for a walk around the lake outside of our hotel.  Apparently, we are quite the attraction here ourselves.  We get A LOT of stares and points our way. People think it is very interesting to see two white people with a Chinese baby.  Several try to snap pictures on the sly while others just stop us and take a picture, even trying to get their children to stand with us in the picture. Ha!  I wish I knew what they were saying!

We had another great day and look forward to celebrating Lottie's birthday on Friday by taking her on her first airplane ride!  We are headed to Guangzhou after we pick up her passport Friday evening.  Hopefully we will check in with the blog once we are settled there over the weekend.  This flight is only about an hour and half, but please pray that Lottie will be comfortable and happy.