I joined two cousins for breakfast and since they hadn’t seen the Pandas, we went to the zoo. Xin Bao spent the day at the rear of her enclosure. Yun Chuan was active in the morning but napping in the afternoon.

We had panda tickets but the standby line was empty all day, so we just walked in.

My cousins had seen enough by 1:00, but I stayed to see more of the park and make two more visits to the pandas.

The San Diego Zoo is also an accredited botanical garden with over 3100 species in their collection, including the Piet Retief Cycad which is endangered.