Five Springs Park - Wednesday

Wednesday Morning after breakfast, Michael took us to Five Springs Park. It was a little chilly at when we started out, but eventually became warmer. Five Springs Park is a famous Buddhist Temple. It is built on the side of a mountain and is impressively beautiful. As we walked through the gates, we really got some interested looks. We usually get these looks because Ivy is a foreign child, but now also because we are a white couple (well, Ivy says her and daddy are white, and Luke and Mommy are brown) with a Chinese baby. Michael said that in the countryside here, people have never heard of international adoption and so people keep stopping him and asking about our family. Because we are now an 'unusual' family, both Luke and Ivy get a lot of attention. There were crowds of people everywhere, and at one point they completely blocked our path in order to look at the children. They started playing with them in their strollers, and giving them fruit as gifts. It was really interesting to see, and very sweet.
The whole time we were there we could hear the Buddhist Monks singing and chanting. Michael said that many people come here to exercise because the temple grounds were so big. There were lots of stairs and hills, so we sure got a work out pushing and carrying the strollers everywhere. In the middle of the Park, there was a small zoo. The kids loved that part.

In the background of this pictures, way up on the mountain side, you can see more parts of the temple

Ivy and Luke with the tiger

There was a little train in the zoo that Rick, Luke, and Ivy rode on