Retail Therapy

Today we went to the zoo while it was pouring! It's a good thing we brought umbrellas. The other day we didn't grab them and it poured! We also did some shopping. That, was fun. It was also cheap!  Shopping was the best part of the day.  I bought some souvenirs.  Tomorrow we get on another airplane to go to Guangzhou.

~Lydia

Today we went to the Chongqing Zoo and saw several pandas.  It was pouring so we weren't sure they'd be out but they apparently love the rain because they were all out playing in it.  We also saw several tigers.  We didn't stay to see any other animals because the rest were ones we could see anytime at home.  After that, we rode the city's monorail around the city to our hotel.  They have a really nice monorail system that they opened in 2006, several months after we adopted Lydia.  It goes above the streets like monorails do but it also goes under the streets like a subway.  Likewise, their subways go under the streets and in some places, over the streets.  Chongqing is VERY hilly so they have had to compensate this way.  Later we ventured out without our guide to find something American to eat.  We ended up at KFC.  Okay, get this.  An American fast food restaurant, with non-English speaking employees trying their hardest to understand what we wanted by a rather complex picture menu and they NAILED our order PERFECTLY.  American employees in American fast food restaurants can't do that much of the time!!  Craig and I got spicy chicken sandwiches...but they weren't like in the US.  They were Chinese level hot with that same flavor and they were GOOD!

We travel to Guangzhou early in the morning. That should be the most relaxing part of our trip, which is good because we are exhausted! 

~Carla