Today we visited the Panda Breeding Center - reason enough to visit Chengdu! We saw a gang of teenage pandas that were born the same year as Alex. They were perfect 13 year olds - eating their weight in bamboo and throwing grass at each other.
The bamboo was simply beautiful and the sun was shining on our perfect day.
My new motto.
Connor feeding the coy fish - they nearly jumped into his lap to eat!
Did you know there are red pandas?
After our trip to the Panda Centre, we headed to Wang Jiang Lou Park where we had a ridiculously fabulous afternoon. Kite flying, geo-caching, Uno and spicy spaghetti.
Chinese calligraphy at the entrance of the park.
After a bit of haggling we got our kites and settled into a beautiful patch of green.
One of the coolest things about China is getting to see older Chinese people
do their daily exercises in sync with each other.
By far the best part of our day - a few rounds of Uno at a Mahjong table
in a traditional Chinese Tea House.
Making our way across town to get our nails done - a regular activity in any Asian country.
The boys were skeptical at first - but ended up loving it so much
we went back a second time and had our toes done!
Eddie's favourite part of the day - Hot Pot! By now the boys had tried Sichuan numbing peppers, ginger dumplings and spicy spaghetti. But nothing could have prepared them for Hot Pot! The entire process was only made worse by the fact that you were meant to dip the already slimy and slippery food into a steaming pot of hotness - with chopsticks. We pretty much spent the night fishing our food out of the hottest bowl ever and sucking the oil off the end of our sticks.
Still - it was pretty great our our sinuses were cleared out!
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