Day eight. “Aiden how do you say, will you play with me in Chinese?”

Day eight. “Aiden how do you say, will you play with me in Chinese?” quote by Claire

We ventured off to the Shanghai Aquarium today. It is a really nice and well done. Not much to say except that we were there during feeding time so we got to see the scuba divers down in the water hand feeding most of the fish and other marine life.

The only thing we didn’t get to see eat, which we probably could have, but we needed to leave because Claire got really upset when she found out what was going to happen. The alligators had live ducks put in their pen. It was only a matter of time before those ducks became dinner. You can see the alligators in the lower left corner of the picture watching the ducks very carefully. Sorry the pictures not very clear, I couldn't get a clear one.

It sort of bothered me, but only because I knew the ducks didn’t have a chance and they would die a cruel death. I’m not a vegetarian, but I like to be in denial about where my meat comes from.

We stopped by the park on our way home. Claire really wants to play with the other kids and sometime they will interact with her, but some times not. Poor thing, she really wanted to make friends with these two little girls at the park today. She followed them around for nearly 10 minutes and then came over to Aiden and I who were sitting on the bench and she asked Aiden “how do you say, do you want to play in Chinese?” Aiden didn’t know, he said he’d go home and look it up in his book. Again communication is getting in our way.

This is just another pictures of the kids at the aquarium today. Notice the cute panda Claire is holding? She bought this panda a couple of days ago and it goes EVERY where with us now. She talks to it constantly, it eats every meal with us...I really think she needs a friend here besides us.