Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Zoo Too

Back to the Bronx Zoo for member's night two. Aunt Christy met us there and we decided to hit the Wild Asia monorail and the new Madagascar exhibit - having first viewed the cartoon movie. From the monorail we saw lots of deer of all sizes, tigers, wild horses, red pandas, elephants - but the favorite was voted on as...... the mom and daughter Rhinos.
Many kinds of monkeys. Who is watching who?
A daredevil baby. It's about 40 feet up on this snag.
Let's try swinging from the vines.
Above and below, the fishes go.
In line for the new Madagascar exhibit. Papa is appropriately clad.
Madagascar is apparently crammed full of funky frogs and VERY LARGE insects. I like them best behind glass.
Ring-tailed lemurs, one of over a dozen lemur species.
And yes, there really are Foosa's -who like to lick their privates in public.

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Mother's Day

Last spring while riding the train home from the city where I had just handed in the last of Lian's paperwork, I had nothing to do since I had gone through all my reading material while waiting at the Chinese Embassy. I got out a notepad and this poem started to flow and practically wrote itself. Adoption can be bittersweet as there is no gain without a loss.
http://www.emkpress.com/mothersday.html

Lian on left in yellow

Lian on left in yellow
about 14 months, with her friend Hailey

Lian at 6 months

Lian at 6 months
Who could resist that smile?

Lian at 4 months

Lian at 4 months
Right after surgery for her lip

Sha'anxi Province Map

Sha'anxi Province Map
HanZhong in lower left

China Map

China Map
Sha'anxi Province in center