Sightseeing in Nanjing

Nihao.  Allison is starting to really open up to us.  We've seen many smiles from her today and even a few giggles.  She's very quiet and patient, so unlike her brothers!  Chris still hasn't heard her speak any words, but I've heard a few when he wasn't around.  We're slowly figuring out what she likes to eat - rice, egg, noodles, Cheerios and french fries (yes, we had Mcdonald's the other night, definitely needed a cheeseburger).  Oh and we tried eel last night at our hotel's dinner buffet and it was really good! Today we saw a little more of Nanjing.  It's a beautiful city with many trees and Sycamore lined streets.  Nanjing used to be the capital of China hundreds of years ago.  "Nan" means south, and "jing" means capital, hence "Bei" means north for Beijing.  Nanjing also had a wall surrounding the city and a moat, but only part of the wall remains today - it's impressive - very tall.    We also went to a city park called Purple Mountain that is home to some Ming tombs.  It's called Purple Mountain because there is literally a mountain that looks purple through the haze.  It was very pretty there, but the park is very large and there's no way we could have seen all of it.  Then we went to the zoo.  We didn't spend much time there because it was getting close to nap & lunch time, but we did see some Pandas!    There were three of them and they were doing what you usually see pandas doing, just sitting around lazily and eating.  Our guide told us that Sichuan province has the largest Panda Bear preserve and there you can sit next to them and have your picture taken (I saw this on the travel channel once)! Tomorrow we will do some more sightseeing and then our guide will gather up all of the paperwork we're waiting for, and then on Friday we will fly to Guangzhou.