A day at Qing Xiu Shan Park

Out to dinner with Daddy

I love bread

Showing off her bodacious body

"Hi Daddy!"

Feeding the fish at Qing Xiu Shan Park

Strolling through the park...thanks Unit 8!! I love my Snugli

Ready for a day of touring in the first outfit I bought for her

The infamous bamboo bridge in Qing Xiu Shan Park

We went on a tour of a very well-known park here in Nanning: Qing Xiu Shan Park, located approximately 30 minutes from our hotel. We were glad to go out and see something special about Nanning and take Bethany outdoors for some air. She is very active but a very very good baby.

She does fuss and cry still at night time when it's time to go to bed but that is to be expected. There are some times she will just rest her head on my shoulder and whimper a little bit and I can see her eyes all sparkly. I think she has few moments of sadness but we have faith that she will eventually grow to understand that we are not going anywhere....we are Mommy and Daddy forever.

I was so excited to dress her up with the first outfit I bought for her right after we received the news of our referral. I had no idea what her size was or even if it would fit. AND it did. She looked like a total princess in her white velour outfit...as you can see from her picture. I told her she has a closet full of stylish clothes and that Auntie Jennifer & Cousin Asia also bought her a bikini....she just looked into my eyes and as I said "yes, yes it's true" she started to clap her hands. In my mind she totally understood me.

She is still very attached to Tim more than me but that's just perfect for me because it gives me time to do things and prepare for her feedings and clean up a bit while he plays with her and entertains her. We have even started the tag-team habit for eating and she has been very good about it.

Qing Xiu Shan Scenic Area is just south of the city of Nanning. It is a large park filled with pavilions and lakes. It also features the longest bamboo walkway in the world: 521 meters long, and they built it in only 70 days!

There is a restaurant adjacent to a huge pond filled with fish...almost similar to the ponds at the Mandarin Restaurant. Well, ok maybe not quite the same as you can see from the picture above. And maybe the fish are not quite the same either....see for yourself in the pictures above. I did have a Liz "mishap", just can't be avoided. I was throwing in feed to the fish and the bag slips out of my hand and falls into the water as the fish are savagely jumping over each other to get the feed. The people you see around me in the picture all gasp and start the "oh noooo" talk behind and around me. They sounded so disappointed and Tim calls out "don't worry, you'll find the bag in the floating fish". Yikes! Caught on video....but unfortunately having trouble again with my video downloading, sorry.