Nanning Zoo

One of the notes from Anna's foster mother was that she likes new toys.  This sort of puzzled me.  What kid doesn't?  Today we had the opportunity to say "Oh, THAT'S what she meant." 

We spent the morning at Nanning zoo.  We had a great time despite sweating uncontrolably.  There weren't a ton of animals but a bear, tiger, lion and acrobatic show as well as a dolphin show.  Anna wasn't terribly interested in the shows but sat on my lap very contentedly.  When we were at the dolphin show we were about a quarter of the way through it when a family with a young boy came and sat next to us.  The boy had a pink squeaky elephant.  She zeroed in on that pink squeaky elephant, bolted from my lap and made it crystal clear that she wanted it.  There was NO distracting her.  I put some distance between us and the toy but she was not letting it go.  We left the stadium and walked to a place where we could still see the show.  There happened to be a toy vendor there but no pink squeaky elephants.  She was content though with a new car.  On our way out Mary worked to find her a pink squeaky elephant.  Less than a dollar and a wonderful souviener for Anna's first trip to a zoo.