Finally, a normal family day. No major event or swing of emotion. Well, I say no major event – there is one, but I will get to that last. Today was a full on tourist style day, kinda. We were scheduled to go to the zoo and to see Chinese buildings and artwork unique to Chongqing. We were looking forward to seeing the pandas and Heith was really interested in the architectural tour.
Apparently it rains ALOT here in Chongqing. We have been really lucky since we arrived and there has been no rain. That changed this morning and it has continued to rain all day. Not the thunderstorm type of rain but continuous drizzle that picks up to more than I would call sprinkling and back to a drizzle.
I was hoping it would stop by the end of breakfast, but it didn’t. So we still went to the lobby at 930 am to see if our guide had a plan B. When we arrived in the lobby, he asked each of us where our umbrellas where. Like I said – it rains here a lot. In our closets at the hotel, they provide umbrellas. We went back to the room to get ours but thought that was only to get us to the bus and back. We were waiting for the plan B. And we were waiting….and waiting…. and waiting. Oh – there is no plan B. Here in Chongqing you don’t change your plans at all due to the rain. We went to the zoo and walked around to look at the pandas and tigers – in the rain. So I don’t have a photo of the pandas. They were much smarter than we were and stayed in their house because it was raining. The rain didn’t seem to bother the tigers.
We stayed at the zoo for about an hour and then left for our next destination. We were all pretty wet but it is an experience we won’t forget. Lucy was loving the animals we did see and she took tons of pictures of them all. Madison was getting a huge kick out of hanging out in the rain with his new friends, Eli & Matt.
After we loaded back on the bus, we took a drive that lasted about 30 minutes to a place with some traditional Chinese Architecture and a museum of Chongqing history. It was very interesting. We were able to purchase some unique artwork that is only available in Chongqing. We also enjoyed not being totally in the rain even though the tour was 50% outside.
We arrived back the hotel at 130pm all starving for lunch. I broke down and we decided McDonalds was our best option. Yes – McDonalds! Get this – they still use real salt and put a ton of it on the fries. They tasted SO good, like the original McDonald french fries they were famous for before the government decided to help us all make better choices eating. OK, I will get off my soap box.
We have had a lazy afternoon at the room and even made one more stop at the mall, again! Lucy has been using her camera bag as a purse. She is so girly. She loves having a bag to carry her stuff around so Mom and I went to the mall and found her a cute purse. She is all about it and I can’t wait to see what she decides to put in it.
So like I said, it was just a normal family day with a splash of rain with actually one major event.
Today is Heith and my 10 year anniversary. We would not want to be anywhere else in the world than where we are now. What an awesome anniversary week – we added a daughter to our family! I already said this on facebook, but it is worth saying again.
Happy Anniversary to my best friend, love of my life and the best father in the world. I love you, Heith Comer!
We fly out to Guangzhou tomorrow. We will be there until the 25th doing paperwork with the US Government so Lucy can fly to the US on a tourist visa but more important automatically become a US Citizen when she gets her paperwork stamped in Dallas Immigration. YEA! It may be a couple of days before we have anything blog worthy.
Thank you all for the support!
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