Hello, cool pandas! 

How was your weekend? We were in the dark even though the sun was shining the whole weekend!  Why? OK, OK, we’ll tell you! 

We went to discover the new cave under the jungle which is Prof. Bookworm’s new laboratory! You must have read about it in the the Panfu News, right? (So, it turns out that I wasn’t imagining those noises the other night when I went investigating!)

On Saturday evening, we packed our investigation equipment together: flashlights, pen & pad (always needed), a rope and a thermos jug with hot Bamboo tea (caves can be cold!) With everything in a backpack we had our hands free to make discoveries. (Max has his tea  sooooo sweet! At least 20 pieces of sugar! Yuck! - Not true! Anyway: Bamboo tea without sugar tastes just horrible, Ella!) 

Anyway, we took the new staircase down into the cave carefully (it was a little scary in the dark). We noted the safety ropes. The Professor had already gone home but it wasn’t him who we wanted to see…. It was the cave painting that we head heard about existed down there! As we all know from school, pandas used to live in caves hundreds of years ago, because tree-houses weren’t invented yet! In those days, they used to paint their experiences and memories on the cave walls. Some of those paintings are still there today!

But there is a secret trick to these special panda cave paintings. They can only be seen with a special flash-light and only on the longest day of the year. When is the longest day??? June 21st, of course! Last Saturday night!

So there we were, on the right day, with the right flash-light and lo and behold, what did we see? THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CAVE PAINTINGS! With these paintings, we were able to see how the first pandas lived. What a fabulous discovery!

Suddenly, Ella screamed very loud! It was so loud that I thought my heart had slipped into my trousers! I thought we had met a cave bear or something! But no, thankfully it was only Prof. Bookworm turning on his spotlight and investigating the noise we had made!

You’re funny, Max! I suddenly felt something soft on my left ear! It gave me a fright so I screamed! Plus, you screamed louder than me! 

Nevertheless, the adventure was enough for one evening! We packed up our back-packs quickly and went back home to right this report. We had even forgotten to drink the Bamboo tea! 

The next day, Sunday, we reported to the professor about the secret paintings. He wants to find a way so that soon all the pandas can see the creative work of our ancestors on any day! Stay tuned!

So that was our weekend! 

See you in Panfu and thank you for the nice comments here in the Blog!

Ella & Max

Tags: adventure, cave, paintings, panda, Panfu

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