Botanical Gardens and the Zoo

The Botanical Gardens
Mom with her four daughters.Watching the toy trains go by.Sarah Lu's favorite part of the gardens.

My jie jie, Chrissy, and me.


The Zoo

Sarah Lu loved the zoo! She loved seeing the animals and the lights! (It was the zoo's annual holiday lights festival). She would point at all the lights and say, "look, look!" Are you ready to go see some animals, Sarah?The first animal we saw, a tiger, it came right up to the glass, which was so cool!

In the big cat's house.

The lions.

Sarah loved these littles guys best!
She called them mousies and kept saying "hi mousie!" It was so cute!

Look, there's two turtles!

Sarah Lu, looking cute, with a pair of her squeaky shoes on! She got so much attention with those! People were commenting everywhere! Another adoptive family passed by us in one of the exhibits and yelled out "Squeaky shoes from Guangzhou, China!" :)

Aww, the cavy's so cute!

The Patagonian cavy

Hope there's nothing scary over there, jiejie!

My Baba and me!

Having fun riding in my stroller!

We saw a bunny "tu". If you can't see it click on the image to enlarge. On the way to the zoo Sarah Lu said she really wanted to see a tu (tu is mandarin for bunny), we almost didn't, until we noticed this one hopping around! Sarah was happy to see her tu!

In front of lots of pretty lights! (but, you can't see them too well in the picture)

Look at all those monkeys!

See the chimp...

The sleeping chimp.

This way Mama!

Wow!

A fun little cave to run through!

Lets go see more Mama!

Look at those Zebras!

Our cute girl, taking a quick break on the bench.

Sarah Lu enjoying cheese fries and her first (?) hotdog before leaving the zoo.

We went to try to see the wolves before we left, but we could not find them, they were not awake and they have a large wooded enclosure, so they were no where to be found. Sarah started clapping her hands and calling for the "gou gous", we told her we would have to come by later to see them, since they had already gone to bed. So, I started talking again, and Sarah Lu runs up to me and puts her finger to her lips and goes, "shhh...the gou gous are sleeeping!"
It was so adorable! As we were walking out Sarah named of all the animals we had seen and said goodbye to each one. How sweet!
We had a great time! I am sure there will be many more zoo trips to come!