Monday already and our last few days in China we decided to finally make the trip to the zoo and since the weekend was over we knew if we go right away in the morning there would not be to many people yet and we can enjoy the zoo. We arrived there right after leaving the island this morning where we had to go for Shawn’s TB results. The TB results came back AOK!! So we are good to go here. Also later that day our guide called us to inform us our visa paperwork and interview went well and we are go for our Oath Ceremony tomorrow afternoon.

We arrived at the zoo shortly after 9 AM and we pretty much spend most of the morning into lunch time there. We walked all over the zoo seen all kinds of animals some the first time even for Garry and I and even thought I do not believe Shawn has ever been to a Zoo he did know what most of the animals where and he was amazed over how big some of them where in real lift such as the giraffe. The only part that was a tad upsetting to me was when we walked by the cat area and here they had about half a dozen Pomeranian dogs each by its own in cages with a sign saying "Pomeranian" as if they are wild zoo animals, what????? I am still not getting that one but seeing those cute dogs like that just broke my heart!
While at the Zoo Shawn also did have a melt down when he wanted to go one way and we decided that we are going another way. He most certainly did not like it when I told him no and he plunged himself on the ground and had a fit.

After he decided that he was done fussing we did go to the SeaWorld portion of the zoo which was quite impressive and bigger then we expected from the outside. We got to watch a mermaid swim in one of the big fish tanks; a diver feed the fish and stingrays as well as a diver that feed the sharks in another tank. It was very clear that the aquarium was the winner in Shawn’s book he loved watching the fish and he clapped his hands when the diver feed the sharks.

Afterward we went back to the island, picked up some laundry at Judy’s ate lunch at Lucy’s where we got to say hello again to another family that we knew from Shenyang that adopted a 10 year old boy. All in all we had a pretty good day until Shawn had a melt down again in a store close to the hotel where the lovely ladies handed him a toy that the mean mommy told him he could not have. So he decided once again to have a fit and boy that child does not like not getting his way. Hmmm, live and learn he eventually will so we let him fuss and continued to walk on. Oh the looks we got not just being two white folk with an Asian boy but oh now that child was having a cry on top of it. It does not bother me and I have to chuckle sometime over the looks one gets. Like at the Zoo today when this lady looks at Shawn then Garry then me trying to figure out what she was looking at hahaha It is unfortunate that there is so little education about adoption in this country.

By the time we got to the hotel and I took him up to the room he decided that it was really not doing him any good grabbed the remote and started to watch TV. Still all in all a very good day that we ended with a plunge into the pool, which may I add Shawn did love but was wayyyyyyyy tooo cold!!!

Hugs Angie