This used to be the door that you used to go into the National Archives. Now they have easier access at the bottom with ramps.
This is a view from the street. Audra and I are about to walk around to the left and enter via the new ground level entrance.
This cool display depicts the Archives new challenge of "archiving" in the digital age. They mention a real challenge "How do you authenticate a digital document?" Think about that, how will people in the year 3000 be able to trust that an archived e-mail is really from Bush? Being a computer guy I know it is really easy to fake it digitally. They are trying to create some sort of historically verifiable digital signature. Big challenge.
Another shot of the digitial archive display.
This is Don looking at the rear of the Archives.
Audra doing that pose thing. This is the same street we walk on to get to the metro station.
This is where you get Emu Oil. (not)
Audra is freaking out at this point....
Audra in the forground from the viewing platform looking at the father of the soon-to-be-named baby giant Panda. He likes that tree. He slept there the whole time we watched him.
A view to the left of where Tien Tien is sleeping.
I swear I'm not going bald at all. I totally don't need Rogain or Propetia or anything like that. I'm totally not going bald. :-) ;-)
This was pretty exciting since this is the mama Panda. Audra and I were watching her from the only place you can usually see her which is the "Web Cam". Audra saw on the Web Cam that she may be visible from where this picture was then taken. We rushed outside of the Visitor's Center where the Web Cam monitors were and ran to the "Panda Cafe" and looked over the edge, through the protective fence ledge and snapped this and several other photos.
This shot shows that there is a dividing wall and door. Tien Tien - the male is in this photo. He is on the other side of the door, away from Mae Shong and the baby.
This was a cool suprise. I like all sorts of cats. This was fun to watch. Two sets of mother/cub families. This is the first set.
Many of these pictures didn't turn out. These guys were always wrestling and moving and the camera wasn't on a tri-pod.
