Panda's and acrobats

We went to the panda zoo in Beijing. We learned a lot about Panda's. They are super lazy and eat 20 pounds of bamboo per day. If they have twins they just throw one out because they don't want
to take care of two. At least that's the assumption humans make because panda's don't talk.

Taking a rest in a simulated panda house.

Sean liked the panda skeleton.

Sitting next to bamboo. They grow a lot of bamboo. If you have to feed bamboo to a couple of hundred pandas every day you are going to have to grow a boat load of bamboo.

We went to a Chinese acrobat show one evening. The acrobats were very talented but I kept thinking about a video I saw on Youtube of how abused Chinese children are when they are being trained as gymnast. One of the performers dropped his hats during a juggling act. He did it three times. At first I thought it was part of the act but it became obvious he just dropped the hats over and over. Eventually he just bowed and walked off the stage. I hope they didn't beat him or fire him after the performance.  I had a hard time enjoying the performance because of how the performers were treated as children.

The things these acrobats could do were amazing. Sean was entranced the entire performance.

Sean really enjoyed the show.