May 17

Written by: Soul Solutions
Thursday, 17 May 2012 

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This morning the pandas were out and ready to get their pictures taken.

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They were out looking for food and apples.

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The mountains were fairly clear with a decent blue sky this morning. Rain forecast for tomorrow and a hot sunny day for Saturday hopefully means we’ll get a clear day when we got up Mt Huashan on Saturday.

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Showed my keeper a few of the pictures of the pandas. Should have taken notes as he was calling out all their names and I don’t know a few of them still.

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Had our last english lesson today, our “last supper” at Mr Deng’s, did a powerpoint night with each person’s favourite 10 photos, with the finale of the night being fireworks.

Tiger went to the shop and picked up a box of fireworks for us at 200 yuan (about $30 Australian). It had a single fuse and let off about 25 individual fireworks into the sky. We sat them in the middle of the street and let them off. They were quite cool with the highlight when the motorcyclist rides past them not even blinking and eyelid. Well worth the money!

Last morning with my pandas tomorrow morning before we head back into Xi’an in the afternoon. Looking forward to Mt Huashan Saturday before we head to Beijing on Sunday lunch time.

 

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Re: 17 May–Farewell fireworks

I'm Mike, Norma's husband.

Your photographs are fantastic and I love the first one on this particular day which just has the Panda with arms under the chin contemplating where its next apple is coming from.

Thank you for making Norma's experience very memorable and have a safe journey home.

Mike

By Mike Sammon on   Friday, 18 May 2012

Re: 17 May–Farewell fireworks

Damn! No fireworks photos. I think I'd go to China just so I can set some fireworks off! I hope that smog stays a way!

By Smiffy on   Friday, 18 May 2012

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