Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Pandas!

So cute! Much effort for four minutes of visual joy. The scavenge required taking a bus to Ocean Park, the full blown amusement park where the Pandas are located. The park was thronged with Sunday visitors and outdoor performances. Nice if you want to stroll about. Not nice for us, as our mission was to find the pandas, photo and split. Unfortunately, in arriving by bus, we disembarked at the first entrance to Ocean Park, not realizing that the pandas were on the opposite side of the park. We had to wait a half hour for the shuttle bus. Annoying and hot, but we sat in the shade and took in the people watching - of which there are throngs to choose from! When we finally got to the panda section, I used my height advantage to reach and hover my camera over the 4-deep crowd which was pressed against the glass enclosure. On our dash out of the pavilion, we got a few minutes to view the adorable creatures through a break in the wall of people.