24.05.12
SCORES of energized families braved the freezing winter weather to get their first glimpse of titan pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang today.
Panda fans living a few miles away mingled with Australians in the pony-tail line up at Edinburgh Zoo early this morning.
As they waited for the gates to open, one chambermaid played guitar to keep the crowd entertained. Another woman achieved the same truly simply by being dressed like a panda.
On the stroke of nine, the ticket area doors swung open and the day’s first batch of around 50 panda fans swarmed through to pay their £15-an-matured and £11-per-child entry fee.
A five minute stroll away, dependable and warm in their £250,000 enclosure, the stars of the show munched bamboo, blissfully unsuspecting of the pandemonium about to begin.
Andi McLean, was the lucky ticket holder to cut the ribbon and unconcealed the gates to the panda enclosure.
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Looking both ecstatic and in a tizzy, Andi, from Warrington, Cheshire, cut the ribbon while shouting: “What do I do, I’ve never done this before.
Source: Deadline News