Green Mountain Park or Qingxiu Shan

Day 5 - .
Beautiful park set up in mountain outside Nanning, China about 40 min from Marriott hotel. Ella seemed nervousness getting on bus but quickly settled down and spent rest of day smiling and playing. She does tend to shut down a bit in public, gets very quite. Soon as she is back in room it is go time and she runs jumps and plays. My non scientific reasoning for the shutdown is its a normal response for an adopted child who really has been isolated from the real world.  Park was fun we fed some fish and took pictures with our zodiac statues.

Then we climbed a few hundred steps(nine stories) to the top of Longxiang tower. Earning my Daddy Sherpa title as a majority of the climb was with a princess on my back. The top of the pagoda offers a fantastic view of the city and is well worth the effort to get to top.

In the evening we hit the Mixc mega mall and everyone did fine. Date night with my girls, huge nice dinner and some clothes shopping. Note for those thinking everything in China is a bargain...nope. This mall was legit high end and prices were about same costs we would find at home. There are plenty other places in China to go bargain hunting as we are told and will explore deeper into that later in week.