This is now the third time I am attempting to write this blog. I have gotten all done with it twice and it has suddenly disappeared. So I will try one last time. So today we went to visit the orphanage. We left the hotel at about 9:00a.m. It was about an hour drive. When we arrived Cody was very excited to show us around and we all received a warm welcome. Right when we walked in we saw a big picture on the wall with Cody in it. We actually saw a couple. We were led to an office where we were able to ask a couple questions then led on a tour by Cody. We brought some smarties (thanks Barb) for Cody to hand out to the kids. He also stuck a few snacks in his backpack before we left a handful of fruit snacks pack and a sleeve of Oreo cookies. All of Cody's friends were at school so he did not get to see them. There was one 16 year old girl there she was not feeling well so did not go to school that day. Cody went into his backpack and gave the girl all the snacks he had brought, it put a smile on her face. He then led us to the place where he slept it was just a room with many beds about 28. He pointed out his bed along with a couple of his friends who were recently adopted. The beds were very hard and very small. We asked Cody if he liked his bed at the hotel better and he said no he liked the hard bed it was very good. We took a few pictures with his nannies and said our goodbyes. Cody was happy to get back into the van. We went past his school and took a picture. We also went to the hospital where Cody was found. We took a picture and left. He may be interested in it one day. Then on to the safari park!!!
When we arrived at the safari park we first took a tram around the the driving part of the park. It is really fun to see the animals just wandering around while you drive through. The giraffes just walk all around and right in front of or back of your car. Cody was just pretty much in awe of it all. When we finished the driving portion we walked the rest of the park. We fed the giraffes branches, the elephants banana's and the tigers raw meat. It was all really fun. As we were walking a couple of older gentlemen with professional looking camera's followed us around for a couple of minutes snapping pictures. Not the stalker like pictures I take but the right in your face kind. After a few minutes Dave and I decided to do some poses for them. They laughed and finally walked off. We also were surrounded at one point by a group of school age kids in bright yellow uniforms practicing their simple english on us. It was very cute. We had wished we would have had that on video it was like we were famous. By the end of the walk Cody was ready to go he was very tired. We were suppose to go out to dinner with our guide but we were all to tired and just ordered pizza. Today we will go shopping and then have Cody's TB test read. It looks good so we are not worried. Cody is doing so well. He is so cooperative and always so happy. He knows a lot more english than we thought he would. We have had no trouble communicating. He has been great. We are shopping with a local shopping guide Ann of Red thread. She will also take us to see Max's foster on Sunday.
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