Panda

Fun experience seeing the Panda's Homeland. We went to the Chengdu's Panda Breeding Research Center. I've seen panda's before at the Washington Zoo and the Memphis zoo. These were so lively and happy. They were busy eating their morning bamboo. We saw about 20 of them. There are only 1,300 left in the world. They have been around since the wooly mammouth, but they changed their habit and went to being a veggie eater and it saved them. They are changed again and they is why they are endangered. Many Many interesting facts about panda's learned today. I may be begining to speak Chinenglish. You must work hard to understand what they are saying, but they are always smiling as they are trying. We went from there to another new experience. I didn't like the food at all but enjoyed the experience and knowing what these people are famous for. It's called Hot Pot. We sat at a bar and had a small conveyor belt running by in front of us. We had our own pot of boiling soup with a divider one half mild and the other spicy. You then would take small plates off the conveyor belt of all kinds of fish heads, livers, kidneys, brains, ells, stomach lining. gizzards, squid, and thank goodness shrimp. you would drop it in the hot pot and let it cook and then dish if out with your chopsticks, I mainly ate watermelon and cookies, but it was a neat experience to see. If you go with two or four you just sit at a table with a hot pot in the middle. Oh another thing was chicken feet. Now this was a very nice place and they are famous for it. Sorta like fondu. Just not for me. We went to another museum, it was great I'm learning so much and each place just reinforces it. We got home aobut 4 and went straight to the KFC. Sorta like home, just sorta. We have to be up super early to fly to Lijiang. We are suppose to see blue skies for the first time.