A beautiful day!!

A very happy boy!

Cute Panda!!

Ice Cream!

More banana's please!

Two goof balls!

Today was the second best day we've had in China!! The first being Audie day of course!! We woke up this morning and we're able to talk to daddy and all of the grandparents! The kids were very excited to talk with everyone and the grandparents we're very happy to talk to Audie for the first time. We then went to the Safari park with our travel group. We took a 45 minute train ride through a safari like setting seeing everything from camels to zebra's and everything in between. The kids LOVED it. Of course Avery attracted some more attention. We then divided up and the kids and I went exploring on our own. We feed elephants! You buy banana's and toss them a small distance and then the elephants eat them. Once they realize you have banana's to feed they stand there with their trunks up and mouths open!! It was so much fun, and elephants are Avery's favorite animal. We then went and saw the Panda Bears!!!! They were just so cute. Anna and I agrees that we should take them home!!! The kids got panda bear hats. Needless to say a Caucasian women pushing a stroller (best decision made all day was to rent a stroller) with one blond child and two Chinese children all holding pinwheels and wearing panda bear hats attracts a lot of attention. We then went to the safari's nursery and saw baby white tigers, baby black bears and baby chimpanzee's. Too cute for words. Then we joined the Chinese tradition of using the bathroom. We just sat down on a bench and Audie starts to cry (his signal he needs to go to the bathroom when he doesn't know where one is). I have two choices, gather everyone and everything up and look for a bathroom or have him pee into the bushes!!!! Just as I tell him to go and I look away so it looks like I don't know what he's doing, our guide walks up. She just laughed and said it was fine. I think we did better than the one woman I saw today who took her daughter JUST outside of the eating pavilion to have her pee on the sidewalk. Whatever it takes to make me feel better!!

We then went to island and ate cheeseburgers again at Lucy's. FYI, NEVER order the "beef stroganoff " at Lucy's. I have the cutest video of Avery and Audie. Wow, can we say "Little Emperor"!!??!! Then it was off to the play ground. The kids had a blast. They definitely needed some time to run wild and burn off some energy. There were also many other adoptive families with their newly adoptive children which is always so nice to see. Audie was a little tentative at first, but he quickly followed the lead of his sisters. Avery made new friends, most of which did not speak English. We then did a little souvenir shopping for our family and some for LWB's art auction. Then we went and a had dessert next to the White Swan, we had a wonderful strawberry tart and a not so wonderful chocolate dessert. The chocolate dessert had a unique taste to it and even Avery didn't like it and if she didn't like it, it must have bad. However, Audie had no problem finishing it off!! We picked up our laundry which was wonderful to know we had clean clothes for the rest of the trip. The girls at the shop helped me get a taxi and the girls took a bath first with the new duckies we acquired and then Audie followed. All three are now in the bed watching The Little Mermaid. I truly could not have asked for a better day. Of course if my entire family was here that would've been better.

Enjoy the pictures!

Becky