Week 30: Panda-monium!

I know, I'm sorry for the cheesy pun title, but it's fairly accurate to describe this week. Sunday started me off with a glorious journey in San Diego. We (myself and a fellow classmate) got to see behind the scenes of the panda exhibits! It was amazing, yet wholly simplistic in its design. We watched the keeper feed the 18 month old that had only been separated from mom for a week, and we watched mom chow down on some tasty bamboo. It was really cool to see all the neat procedures they had trained the pandas to sit through, including blood draws, ultrasounds, and specimen collections. It was really neat and there's tons of pics and video below!
The rest of my week was filled with insane last-minute prep for spring spec. We made sure the sound works in our stage and that everything we needed was present and accounted for. Today we opened with wild success. We broke all previous records and made about $10,000! Things will only go up from there. In eye to eye, we're kind of in our own little world so we don't get the full effect of spring spec, but it seems cool. Every thing is going well for us: people are bringing animals, and they are all enjoying the food. The camping theme seems to work well for us too. This is really an interesting thing and hopefully everyone reading this will come out this year or next to get a full effect of what's happening. It's totally different from visiting the zoo the rest of the year. Anywho, I know you are all chomping at the bit for those panda pics, so here they are: (dad, mom, mom, baby)