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We're home! We flew back in from Shanghai last night, and we all stayed up until midnight, unpacking and getting sorted, in the hopes of getting back to Toronto time sooner rather than later. (Ros and I still woke up at 5, but at least it wasn't 3 like our first night in Beijing.)

Between the fancy schmancy new camera, our point-and-shoot and my iPhone, I've got nearly 2,000 pictures to sort through, but I thought I'd put up a couple of pics from Ros' panda adventure for now.

The panda was about 7 months old, nearly as big as Ros, and weighed more. His name was Oreo. In the first pic, he's just about to lick her, which she thought was hilarious.

Here she is with the panda more sitting beside her (he kept nearly squirming off her lap), looking very pleased.

In case you're wondering how they manage to keep the pandas relatively happy while sitting on people's laps, the handler constantly was smearing honey on his paw so he was concentrating more on licking the sweet stuff than all the crazy people waiting to hold him.