My mom's friend and her 11 year old son (named Donut) came to visit us for a few days, so we decided to go to the Chiang Mai Zoo. A baby panda was born last month and the whole of Thailand is obsessed with her. We actually got to see her up close, she was so cute!! But each person was only allowed one minute and only 500 people a day. No pictures allowed, sorry, but she's all over the news.
It was raining the entire day so we wore raincoats. And even with the bad weather the zoo was packed. 
There were so many people, I could hardly move--and they were taking pictures as if at a rock concert!
In the actual panda exhibit you could see the baby from a TV.
Then we went to get something to eat a a little market next to the exibit. It was extremely cramped with dirty puddles on the ground with no place to sit.
Donut bought some fried crickets and eggs.
I can't put all the pictures up because there's so many and we saw a lot of animals. But more importantly, they were selling paper made from panda dung. Picture frames, notebooks, keychains...even fans. COOL! Let's fan ourselves with panda dung!
Naturally, I bought it. 
Hmm, smells like bamboo.
that is SO cool. but i can still never imagine you with a FAN that was made from panda PRODUCTS... if u know what i mean.
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