The Safari Park And More

Last night was a bit of a rough night for Max again. His fever is still gone but his poor little nose is running yet. He sucks his two middle fingers during the night and it doesn't work so well when you can't breath through your nose. He woke himself up quite a bit and had a tough time breathing with his stuffy nose. Funny how the little sweetheart found his way between Eric and I again. I am thinking he may just have us wrapped around his little finger already. Oh there will be adjustments when we get home but we are loving all the good signs of bonding we are seeing and hearing. He loves to be picked up. He reaches his little hands out and when we pick him up he gets the biggest grin you have ever seen.

Max has some of the cutest expressions that I need to try catch on camera. One things he does is squints his little eyes and wrinkles up his nose. Who can't love this little face? Eric and I continue to talk about how blessed and in love we are with this little bundle from China. God is so good and we are so blessed to have Max as part of our family.

Today we spent most of our day at a Safari Park. It is the largest Safari Park in China. We though Omaha had an amazing zoo well there is no comparison after what we saw today.

The first part of the morning we spent on a little train riding through the park. The animals were right next to us and in some cases were crossing the road in front of us and behind us.

When we would come up on some of the animals like the bears and tigers there was someone there throwing food to them. Notice the bear standing on his hind legs waiting for a mid morning snack. Max was more interested in all the people around him that the animals.

We then entered the park. We walked through the baby animals nursery and came across the chimp in pajamas. Isn't he the cutest thing ever? The big one was snacking on a carrot.

I am pretty sure Kurt and Eric may be long lost brothers. They are way too much alike!

Notice Max is handling the park in true Max style.

We had some lunch by the giraffes and then headed over to feed them. This was amazing. The kids were loving it. Look at cute little Judson from our group feeding the big giraffe. Max woke up just in time to help me do a little leaf feeding.

Check out the tongue on that big guy!

Isn't this the sweetest little Koala?

Next we hit the elephant show. The elephant would hand people banana's to feed to him. He did some jump rope twirling and hula hooping.

Max and I having a little face to face time.

The panda bears were also pretty amazing. There were 12 panda's at this zoo. There are actually only 12 panda's in the whole US.

We finished off the day with the elephants. We were able to feed these guys too. There was so much more we could have seen and done but it was time to head back to the island. It was a fun day. I wish we could take our other three kids, they would have loved it.

Max had an afternoon snack of one of his favorite foods .... bread! Max and his older sister are going to get along great ... they love their carbs!

Max continues to be Mr. Curious. He ended up crawling in the shower today and quickly learned it is wet in there. He also was quick to find the open diaper bag and all the treasures inside.

We spent the evening with Kurt, Lauren and Lu Lu again. We had a yummy dinner at the Cantonese Restaurant tonight. We let Eric be in charge of ordering all our food tonight and it was all amazing. It is a little tough to cut up food for Max with chop sticks or the spoons they use. Max downed a bottle and then ate table food like a champ too. He should sleep well on his full belly.

We stopped by Starbucks on our way back to the hotel for a little dessert. Notice the improvising on the cake to go! Cake in a cup!