requirements:

• public transit
• AZA-accredited zoo
  • d. would like a panda
• art gallery
  • i would like a turner
• we will not be cold
• ideally this will be a food-based experience

possible destinations:

• montreal
  • pros
    • affordable flights
  • cons
    • we have been there together before (but not since we were 13)
    • no panda
    • biodome is kind of a weak zoo offering (but it does have multiple animals i would like to see)
    • previously in quebec i mixed up the words "jambe" and "jambon" when trying to order a pizza with ham and i am still haunted by it
    • in general i am not great at french (see previous point)
    • last time we were there we had some ghost activity and like, what if it's still there. what if it remembers us
• toronto
  • pros
    • undoubtedly the cheapest flight options
    • great zoo
    • i have friends to visit
  • cons
    • incredibly not-cheap lodgings
    • we have been there before (though not together)
    • i don't really have anything i want to do there
    • the iconic shithole pizza place i loved has closed
    • weakest possible turner and it's not on display
    • having friends to visit means being obligated to visit friends
• boston
  • pros
    • MULTIPLE accredited zoos
    • so many museums
    • a turner on view in the museum of fine arts AND some great etruscan funerary sculpture i would love to see up close
  • cons
    • i would be absolutely insufferable trying to navigate by where things were located in fallout 4
    • no pandas?
• washington/baltimore
  • pros
    • panda
    • smithsonian
    • national gallery admission is free (vs. $27 to the mfa in boston BUT i would get to see a turner there)
  • cons
    • as far as i can tell there are a lot of turners in various galleries but none on view, which is simply rude
• to write up later: cincinnati, san diego
• other considerations: since i started making this list ages ago, some pandas have left zoos i mentioned above (i think?). will any zoos in usa/canada even have pandas soon with all the tensions with china. did d. ever renew her passport, and would she be willing to do a longer flight (like california) if the payoff is pandas. does she still even want to maybe go to the states given this current political context. what is even our budget (how was this the one thing we didn't discuss)