zoo

This semester, Jon has no classes on Thursday. Since it is a week day, there will not be as many people out at the stores, the lake or other tourist spots. We plan to take advantage of this as the weather gets nicer and before it gets too hot.

Week before last, the weather was pretty nice so we decided to surprise the kids and go to the zoo. We packed a lunch and made the day of it.

China is not known for very good zoos... But the one in Hangzhou is pretty good, especially for China.

We even met some other foreigners while we were there. There were times that we thought we and the kids were on display, but overall it was a nice day.

Eryn poses with a tiger

There were a few kiddie rides at the zoo. Some ladies called the kids over to ride the ride, it wasn't until the ride was over that they mentioned the price of the ride. It was 5 yuan per kid. Not really that bad.

And they got to shoot guns! I don't know why there were guns on bumble bees...oh well, the kids loved it.

We had a few chips left over from our lunch, so we fed a few of the animals...

The kids posed with an elephant...

Liam said his favorite part of the zoo was watching the ducks...


Eryn really liked watching the lemurs and monkeys

Truthfully, this zoo is not as good as the Memphis zoo, but we had a great time. If you come to Hangzhou, we will take you (they do have a panda).