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Greta Meets a Panda for the First Time!

From a very young age, Greta's favorite animal has been the giant panda. Collections of pandas have filled her room....stuffed animals, jewelry, notebooks, bags, shoes, decorations, books....if it has a panda on it, we probably own it.  One of her consolations about moving to China has been to see pandas in real life.  (The bucket list is to hold a panda, but that is closed up tight right now....)   There are pandas in the Changzhou zoo.  We were waiting for a pay check and the weather to cool down a bit before going.  The time finally came.  It was ear-to-ear grinning all around. In addition to pandas, here are a few other tidbits about our zoo day: As we have learned, *everything* is different in China, the zoo was not an exception.  They have double (or more..) the amount of animals in the enclosures that we would have in the US. The visitors get to feed the animals if they buy the food from the zoo.  This creates a condition that many of ...