requirements:

• public transit
• AZA-/EAZA-/WAZA-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
• vienna
  • accredited zoo with pandas
  • number one on my list of destinations, so much stuff i wanna do there!
  • lots of art but no turners
    • BUT this is a pricier destination and i will be going there at some point regardless, it would be amazing to split the cost of accommodations and then i can see a turner on my own sometime instead of dragging poor d around
• brugelette
  • pairi daiza in brugelette has pandas!
    • BUT most stuff we would want to do is in brussels or elsewhere
• 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
    • 2025 update: well now i certainly don't wanna go there lmfao
  • what is even our budget (how was this the one thing we didn't discuss)