First of all, best wishes to all of my friends and family for 2010! At the moment, I'm in Chengdu. It was a very spur of the moment type of trip. My co-worker and I bought plane tickets on Wednesday morning, and flew out that night. Since then we've been doing things around the city, and I also met up with my friend JP, who worked with me in Wuhan last year, but now lives near Chengdu. I held a baby panda on New Years day! By baby panda, I mean an actual, real, living baby panda. It was 1000 yuan to do it, but the money goes toward protecting the pandas, so I don't feel too bad about it. Yes, there are pictures. Other than that, I've been to two temples, eaten Sichuan hot pot,
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