Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Safari Park

3 post day then I'm all caught up!!

So how does one follow up becoming a US citizen? With a trip to the zoo! The safari park was less than an hour from our hotel. 
It was really fun. They have a safari ride reminiscent of Disney's Animal Kingdom, but without all those pesky regulations. This equals the animal safari of your dreams! 

Can you find Penelope and Gabe?
Signs in China are hysterical! O

Penelope was happy waiting for our turn on the safari. 


I think I must have been completely squishing her in this picture. 


As we got to each animal area there was a cast member standing on the side of the road throwing meat to the animals to get them to interact. Hilarious and effective! 


They even got the hippos to come out of the water!

Not exactly what I had envisioned for Penelope's first character interaction, but we couldn't pass up the corny fabulousness of it!
Penelope actually was quite interested in the animals. Such a change from the aquarium last week. Was that just a week ago? Feels like a life time ago!

That's right, you can feed the giraffes here!!
Pandas! We saw real, live Pandas , beautiful. So cool. 
Also we saw fake pandas. 
Who, like everyone else, loved Elijah!
What a great day!!
This is our last night in Guangzhou. Tomorrow we will pack our bags and leave for Hong Kong. We spend one night there the fly home on Friday. We are so close to getting home we can almost taste the pork burgers!























8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Really neat zoo. Glad you got to see the pandas up close.(not the fake ones! lol) Love the picture of Gabe and Penelope looking at each other. Penelope loves her big brother!! Love, Nanny

Sarah D said...

Cast members? They call them that in China? ;-)

PANDAS!!! So amazing!

The Gabe and Penelope picture is TDF!

tjghast said...

That Gabe is such a good big brother. The picture of them together is priceless.

Lexie thinks her bows are pretty and her shirt is pretty too. Lexie wants to know what kind of cups she drinks out of. She asked 40 other questions but I can't remember them. HURRY HOME>

The Ghasts

Ashley said...

You need to get the picture of Gabe cuddling her framed-- melts my heart! And from one big bow lover to another I have to ask where you got the big pink bow in these pictures.... I am in love!! Safe travels and thank you for sharing this journey! Ashley Jansen

Ashley said...

You need to get the picture of Gabe cuddling her framed-- melts my heart! And from one big bow lover to another I have to ask where you got the big pink bow in these pictures.... I am in love!! Safe travels and thank you for sharing this journey! Ashley Jansen

Anonymous said...

I love all the outfits and cute cute bows. She will probably not want to leave the house unless she has a bow. CUTE picture of all of you. Loved the one of Gabe and Penelope. LOVE certainly agrees with her. WOW down to hours and you will be home. So happy the journey is almost over and you will be back at home all together as one big happy family. Where are Vern and his family from in Colorado. Our cabin is 40 miles east of Alamosa.If they r ever our way we would love to meet them and give them a tour of our mountain. We love you all and are praying and sending hugs your way. Enjoy your last hours in China, but you will soon be HOME.yay!!!!!!!! Again, thanks for sharing in your journey. We love it. Carolyn Carr

Anonymous said...

The picture of babe Anne Penelope is perfect!!!

Keeping up with the Lauritzen's said...

What a great mommy/daughter picture with the giraffe. LOVE IT!

 
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