A LETTER FROM DESMOND IN HAIKOU

On the long, long, Loooooong train ride to Sanya we met this guy and named him Desmond, he was a nice guy and would help us with our Chinese.

This afternoon I got an email from him, it was so funny and I loved it so much I just had to share.

HI
I am AUSTIN DESMOND,the guy with long talking with you in the train to sanya,my CHINESE NAME is WANG SHENG.Now i am working in haikou city,the capital of hainan island.
Did you have a good holiday in SANYA? Is there any nice photo you can show me?How much you paid for HAIXIAN(sea food)? haha !!!
Long time missing you! I hope you have a nice journey in ZHONGSHAN and IN CHINA also.Witing for you visiting HAIKOU!
                Yours DESMOND

Never Going To The Hogle Zoo Again!

The zoos in China are awesome. It's all about getting the animals to do something in front of the crowds. All throughout the zoo there were little hiding places where zoo workers could go and throw food to get the baboons to do flips or to get the tigers to growl.

I got to feed a Giraffe!

I saw many, many, MANY, angles of giraffe.

And they had TONZ of pandas, I only had a couple really good pictures because there were lots of people... it's like pandas are rare or something...

Red Pandas are so cute, I wanted to take one home with me because it looks as snuggly as a teddy bear.

How many red pandas do you see?

the koalas were kinda boring.... but cool

They had a safari train ride where they let animals run around their cages and you take a train ride through them. We got pretty up close and personal with some of the animals.

Some of them even smiled

I got to do some pretty sweet stuff while I was there,

I got to pet a baby white tiger.... yes be jealous.

and I got to hold a macaw, which was legit!