Photo by dcJohnWoe is us! News that the National Zoo has scheduled a farewell gathering for Tai Shan only means one thing: Butterstick is really leaving. And soon.
Details are still forthcoming on the goodbye bash, but this message appeared on the Zoo’s web site this morning:
Friends of the National Zoo will be hosting a Farewell to Tai Shan event on Saturday, January 30, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Details will be posted here soon.
In other words, you already know where to find your humble DCist editors on Jan. 30 — sobbing quietly in a dark corner of the Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat, clutching a plush version of the ‘Stick, waiting for someone to come and hold us and tell us it was all a bad dream. Waaaaah.
