Pandas

You may have noticed that the title of this blog is "Rambling Pandas." Reason? We like pandas. A lot. We probably have hundreds of photos (if not over a thousand) of pandas from all of our visits to the zoos. One day we would really love to go to China and hold a little panda cub. And we think zoo pandas must have a pretty nice life - do whatever they want, sleep as much as they want, people bring them food and clean up after them, everyone thinks they're cute and loves them.


The last time we visited a zoo to see pandas was back in January 2010 in San Diego (pictured). We were in Los Angeles for a wedding and had originally planned to stay there the entire time, but college football made that very difficult. We weren't able to find a room for one of the nights so we decided to drive down to San Diego. It's not that far and then we could go to the zoo!

In addition to visiting some of the restaurants we discovered and loved during our 2006 San Diego vacation, we went to the zoo both partial days we were there. The panda exhibit was quite crowded. But that's because we were really lucky. There was a young cub - Yun Zi - whose exhibit had just been opened to public viewing that week. We love seeing little panda cubs and our timing couldn't have been better!

Unfortunately for us, most of what little Yun Zi did was sleep. He half-heartedly played with his mom a few times, but he was mostly a snoozer like us. Prodded to get up, he stirred a bit and then went back to sleep some more. Just like us.

Hopefully we'll see some more pandas soon!