While residents of the northeast got their fair share of snow during last week’s blizzard, Malibu residents were left with sunshine and sandy beaches. A group of students from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management decided to show the east coast that sand can be just as fun as snow by accepting the #PandaChallenge started by National Zoo panda bear Tian Tian.
After Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo posted a video of Tian Tian playing in last week’s fresh powder, a Maryland dad dressed up in a panda suit and mimicked the bear’s actions in the snow in his backyard. Both videos have since gone viral, and Graziadio students jumped in on the action by filming a video of a student in a panda suit rolling around in the Zuma Beach sand.
“We don’t have Snowzilla or Blizzard 2016 on the west coast, but we do have plenty of beach, sand, sunshine and a lot of Pepperdine Waves,” a Graziadio representative said. “We wanted to show the east coast how the west coast rolls.”
