In the few days before Jeff and Sarah left for home, Jeff offered to stay back at the hospital with Cooper so Sarah and I could have some mother-daughter time. There's a gigantic mall across the street from the hospital complete with a theme park! The only problem is most of the stores inside have closed down, but Sarah and I made a day of it anyway. First we checked out the House of Mirrors. They gave us little foam wands so we could poke those out in front of us instead of running into mirrors and breaking our noses. How many Sarahs do you see?
Then, we decided to brave the indoor roller coaster. Sarah was so nervous, but she ended up loving it and wanted to do it again!
Sarah and Jeff had moved from the hotel to the hospital since the hospital had an extra room and it was much more inexpensive than the hotel. Jeff and I had been taking turns at the hotel up til then. The last couple nights Sarah and I roomed together and enjoyed movies and some painting crafts we'd found.
The next day we reserved Charlie the driver again to take us downtown to visit the Qingdao Zoo and famous TV Tower. I couldn't believe how many exotic animals they had right in the heart of the downtown area! My favorite was the Lion and Tiger - they were roaring really loud over and over. Sarah liked so many she couldn't choose, but she especially like the sea lion that she got to have her picture taken with. I think the bear thought she looked tasty?! Unfortunately, the Qingdao Zoo doesn't have any of the famous Chinese Pandas... maybe next year?!
After that we drove up to the TV Tower. It's mainly just a Tower that you can go up and view the whole city. At the top they had a series of mind bender games we enjoyed playing.
That was the day that Cooper had his 3rd stem cell injection. Jeff and Sarah were scheduled to leave early the next morning.
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