Life... One Day at a Time: A Day at the Zoo

Friday, March 8, 2013

A Day at the Zoo

February 25~Guangzhou Zoo

We spent the day at the Guangzhou Zoo. It was awesome!! The day started with about a 45 minute bus ride to get us all to the zoo. Ava is going to have a rude awakening when we get back to the states and she has to actually sit in a car seat when in a car. But here, anything goes. We make her stay on our laps but I'm pretty sure my little girl thinks mom and dad are a jungle gym when in the vehicle. She seriously has ants in her pants!! Trying to climb all over us and touch and feel everything close. A monkey, I tell you!!

Our first stop at the zoo was a tram ride through an open safari. I wasn't sure how our monkey was going to do on the tram so I had treats ready just in case. But she was immediately taken by all the animals. She was really checking them all out. She loved the big animals the best but I think mainly because they were easier to see. The zoo keepers were always close by and would throw the animals food when we got close so that we were able to easily see the animals. We saw bears, zebras, lions, white tigers, elephants, hippos, rhinos, lots of birds, and other animals that we had no idea what they were.

After that was the walking tour through the zoo. We started with the dinosaur exhibit which I thought was going to be kind of hokey, but it was really cool. They had lots of replica, robotic dinosaurs that looked really realistic. Some of them were even rather scary. I was a little concerned about how Ava might do. She didn't seem scared but at the same time wasn't too sure about them either. We proceeded to see all kinds of animals: a huge snake exhibit, elephants, monkeys, tigers, bears, koalas, and panda bears. The panda bears were the absolute favorite of the day. Not something you can see everyday and we loved watching Ava's reaction to them. The other different thing about this zoo is that they had little monkeys out of their cages with a trainer. So you could get REALLY close to them...something that would never be allowed in the US :)