Someone likes a little mirror time in the evenings....Today's adventure started with a trip to the Carrefour. (French Wal-Mart) But to me it feels like Dollar Tree on steroids. Everything is so cheap(yes usually cheap quality) But it's so fun to see all the neat stuff. We had a good time browsing and looking down all the aisles. The store is at least two levels and it's all underground.
Zane tried out the ripstick until he nearly knocked a woman over who was squatting downon the left of the picture. The Cotter boys, Luke and Logan tried out the plasma cars. Yes, the same type of plasma cars that Santa brought last year that came with a much larger price tag than these in China.
This has to be the Impluse shopping at it's finest. The wheels of the buggy lock and you just ride down the ramp. It moves at a pretty good speed so we couldn't pick up everything on the first trip and manage to get it into the buggy.We rode up and down this escalator at least 3 times trying to get everything we needed into the buggy.
This may be convience packaging at it's finest..... Cereal with the milk attached to the box.
Zane turned up his nose at the salted, dried fish.... I'm sure it was fresh.....
After shopping we walked over to a PapaJohn's pizza place. I had never seen a dine-in restaurant. But oooh the pizza and breadsticks were good. Ty got a new red truck from Carrefour so David opened the package from him. This may have been the first meal we have seen him only eat a little. I think his mind was on the truck instead of the pizza.
After a quick stop back at the hotel to unload all of our "treasures" we left for the Wildlife Safari Park. It was really nice. A little on the hot side but the animals didn't seem to mind. The first part of the park was a train ride through the "big" animals and then we walked through the rest. Zane got to throw bananas to the elephants and Ty and I got to feed a baby white tiger.(For about 3 seconds) The place was not crowded at all and we basically had all the time we wanted to see the animals. David commeneted that this has to be the best "zoo" that we've ever been to. I would agree the animals seemed so free and natural. Not a lot of cages and bars.
Our favorite had to be the monkeys at the very end. It was a huge group of them. There were so many babies and their mothers trying to take care of them. There was one baby monkey who kept climbing on this metal ferris wheel type thing. He was a little bitty fella. And everytime he would get on the wheel she would go over and pull him off. Then she would take him far away, but just as soon as her back was turned he was off to the ferris wheel again. Poor Mama, we must have watched her pull him off 10 times. I can relate, I can relate....
It was a long hot day but a very fun one. 
3 comments:
I love the look on Ty's face when his dad is opening the car. What anticipation! He is just sooo cute!
Blessings,
Sarah
One question, how can you go to a French Walmart on an Chinese island that was once a under British rule? Talk about international!
Nana
What a cutie! It looks like he is settling in with his family. We're so excited at what God is doing in the Walling home!
The Mathis family
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