Safari Park Day

South of Guangzhou the is a really nice zoo. We spent the day there. I was quite impressed with how beautiful and spacious it was.  There are two sections - one is like a vey large traditional zoo and the other is an open area that you can take a tram through or pay to drive your own car through. It must cost quite a bit to drive your own car because I didn't see that many cars and most of them were luxury vehicles. I suppose there's some bragging right associated with  weaving your Land Rover through the giraffes, zebras and gazelle on the  roadway. 

They also have really large "Jurrasic" section with life-sized animated dinosaurs in the jungle. They were very life-like. I explained to Danny at the beginning (and in the middle) that the dinosaurs were "not real", "fake", "pretend" and "like a movie", hoping that one of those concepts would translate accurately. Multiple times, he would stop short when he heard a dinosaur noise in the jungle. I would attempt to walk forward and reassure him that it was ok, but he would stand in front of me with both hands out to stop me. He then waited for someone behind us to go first before we proceeded. I'm not sure if he feels that I have very poor judgement and we will both be better off letting someone else decide if it's safe OR if he's trying to protect us by sacrificing some strangers. 

I ended the day with a visit to Lost and Found because we misplaced Danny's jacket. I went to the desk and told them I was looking for a black jacket with white spots and deer on the front of it. This kind of jacket isn't exactly on style here. I haven't seen anything similar. It came from the orphange. 

After a phone call, I was told that it was at the other lost and found on the other side of the zoo. I took the shuttle bus there and when I got there, I told them what I was looking for and they asked me to fill out a form.  I then waited for 5 minutes. The workers then produced the jacket from under the counter that stood between us. They then asked me to have Danny put it on to see if it fit. It did. They then told me that I needed to wait to speak to a manager. I pointed out that I described the jacket sight-unseen. They were not satisfied.  I them offered to show her a picture on my phone of Danny wearing the jacket. See below. 

This also was not quite enough to satisfy them. They wanted to take a picture of Danny holding the jacket and holding my phone which was displaying the picture of him wearing the jacket.  Before they could figure out the logistics for this picture the manager came and told me I could take my jacket.   Wow. There must be some of lost and found crime ring that they are trying to thwart. I'm glad I had that picture.