Qianling Mountain Park

Today was a much slower day as all adoption appointments are complete here in Guiyang. We will remain here until Joyah's passport is ready to take with us to the US Consulate in Guangzhou.  We will fly there for the last several days of the trip on Friday.

While we wait in the city we will do a little shopping and sightseeing.  Our hotel room is small so we did not mind an hour walk trying to find bananas this evening. This afternoon, our guide took us on a short trip to a park at the edge of the city.  It was called Qianling Park or sometimes referred to as the monkey park.  There were beautiful trees, lake and a lot of monkeys in one area of the park. We found out that Joyah is afraid of a lot of things today.  Monkeys, scary lion statues, the computer tablet and baths are at the top of the list. I think she is teething too so her mood was a little cranky this evening, she only has 4 teeth but I can see more coming.

At the park there were some ladies doing a traditional dance as you see in one of the pictures.  There is also an 800 year old Buddist temple at the park as well. The scary lion statues were at the temple.  Joyah sure did not like them.