Pavilion. The China Pavilion is enormous, but we were still amazed
when we got to the entrance and there wasn't a line. Incredible. We
ran in quickly, feeling like we were getting away with something.
Inside were smaller pavilions for each of China's provinces (including
the province of Tibet). Sichuan, our favorite of course, had
everything: pandas, strange dog/dragon things. MIke and I were both
fascinated with the panda. Okay, I was fascinated with the panda, and
I have extensive panda-sanctuary plans for when we get to Sichuan. At
any rate, we both made imitation panda-gesture poses. And the wild
dragon dog things - I began to pose next to one when he blinked,
starling me! Ahh!
China Pavilion was pretty great, but we were both exhausted and soon
after decided to head home. There was a brief panic when we couldn't
find the exit. We tried asking some of the staff who seemed to speak
good English, but couldn't understand what we wanted (exit? way out?
I want to leave?). After making no progress we desperately hurried
through the pavilion. Luckily we found some exit arrows on the floor,
but we still reached several dead ends before finding the real exit
(inexplicably, all the other exits were shut and locked). Once we
were outside we started to worry that we had somehow missed the
up-in-the-air part of the China pavilion, but were too tired to
contemplate going back. Ever.
Probably.
Ann and Mike
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