This morning, I was supposed to go to a pre-conference meeting. Long story short…. I did not. It is too complicated a story.
The good news — there is plenty to do around the conference hotel.
I walked to the Washington National Cathedral. I saw inside, but I didn’t want to pay $12 to really see everything. I saw the gardens and then, I left to go to the zoo.
At the zoo, there were so many kids. So many. I can’t handle masses of kids between age 5 to 20. They were loud (like normal kids). Poor pandas. The good thing is they don’t know how rare it is to see pandas. So they looked and left. The adults stuck around the longest. Currently, there are two pandas as one returned back to China. One panda was outside when I arrived and one was inside. I went to see the other animals (one gorilla was celebrating its 35th birthday) and when I came back both pandas were inside. One was sleeping.