"Let's Get On The Bus"

All aboard the Golden Dragon bus, and off to the zoo to see the Pandas. Today we learned why Chongqing is called "the oven" - waaaaaay too hot and humid, even for Florida. We dripped and dripped and dripped walking around looking at the animals. The big hits were the ostrich (with our guide, don't know why) and the racoon.... yes, they think a racoon is worthy of being exhibited in the zoo.

Then we stopped at the Art Institute in the zoo, which was (literally) cool, and picked up a few things to carry around on the plane and try to keep unfolded or creased. Good luck to me on that.

We're starting to figure Lily out after a couple of days. She won't go to bed, sleeps late, and hates being woke up in the morning -- sounds completely like her sister. She also likes to get into everything, and wants whatever you happen to have, making meals a lot of fun. I can hear Chloe now.... "Daddy, Lily is in my toys!!" Busy, busy, busy - we're thinking an all day trip on a plane next week is going to be a challenge unless we can work out how to keep her occupied.

Here are a few more pix of the zoo today - the one is at the hippo tank where suddenly the girls were popular with a few women and their kids. We also had an elderly gentleman run up and give us thumbs up signs, saying a bunch of other things, as we walked by.

Girls, Girls, Girls.

Dirty Panda.

I can't believe you're taking me to the zoo.

Me and my best friend Grace.