Today started out very early. We left the hotel at 7:00 and went to the
consulate. This was the big event that
our entire trip was based around. We
filled out some paperwork with two other families and then swore (not bad
words, but promised) to raise Christian as a US citizen. I honestly don’t even remember what I
promised because he was a little wiggly, but I have the papers to prove that it
happened J The waiting area had a few play toys, and
Peng Peng had fun playing. There were
two children, around the ages of AJ and Abby, and he just adored them. He kept smiling and trying to impress them
with his silliness. At one point he ran
up to the boy and hugged him. I couldn’t
help but think about how great he is going to get along with his big brother
and sister when we get home.
After we finished at the consulate’s we went to a safari
park. I would go so far to say that it
was even better than the Animal Kingdom at Disneyworld that we went to last
year. We saw an elephant show, Pandas
(the giant ones and red ones, both of which are endangered), koalas, Adam fed a
giraffe, and so much more. It was
magical to see Christian so excited with so many things. He really really loves animals and I think he
is especially going to love the fish tanks.
His whole body gets rigid in excitement when he sees animals or
fish. We also went on a safari ride on a
car/ train type of thing. We saw hippos,
rhinos, lions, cheetahs, and more. We
spent six hours there and were all exhausted when we left. The rest of our evening was spent washing
final laundry and packing for our adventures tomorrow.
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