I will join you at that job! I never heard the pandas making any noises before, they sound like baby birds!

2 boys ---you and Monstro must be potassium fanatics!

Love Katherine

Not anymore; Lex eats all the bananas before we can get to them. I think he's part monkey. The cute part. :)

I think baby pandas sound like squeaky toys.

This is what Neil Gaiman said when he visited there last year:
I knew about the Chengdu Panda reserve because I had a friend who worked there for a summer. Really, it was all I knew about Chengdu. It's lovely. And it's a wonderful thing being an honoured foreign guest somewhere like that -- you get shown all the cool stuff, get to see Pandas, red ones and giant ones, and then find yourself put in a blue disposable smock and gloves (to protect the pandas from you, asnd not the other way around) and you get a year-old Panda placed on your lap. Utter, utter happiness. Better than any number of awards. Makes being a writer completely worthwhile. I suspect that world peace and harmony would come about in weeks if people just got to put pandas on their laps every few months. Honest.

Pictures here: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/08/more-pictures-of-me-not-eating-bamboo.html

--Julie

Well, all I know is I was in great need for some inner peace today, and just watching that woman lug around the baby panda made me feel calmer and more tranquil.

Funny, this has been a very bamboo-heavy blog the past few days!