Beijing Zoo

I spent most of the day in the Beijing Zoo with Shuya. It was a lovely day, just a little bit of "overcast" (air pollution) compared to yesterday, it was clear. This morning we spent at least 45 minutes with the pandas and I got some great photos of Shuya when the panda came up to the window and leaned on the window sill right next to her! It was great! Then we spent some time looking at the big cats and some other large mammals.

We left to have lunch with a bunch of Shuya's aunts. We had a great meal. They are all very nice!

We returned to the zoo in the afternoon and a couple of nice families started playing with her while we were resting by the pond that makes up a bird sanctuary. One of the parents had a bubble gun that made bubbles and Shuya just loves bubbles! They even let her "shoot" the gun and make her own bubbles. I got a little jpg movie on the digital camera. She had a blast!

We had such a nice time with these families even though we each knew only a few words each in each other's language. They are wonderful people here. I met very nice people everywhere we went.