The National Zoo’s new pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, arrived in the DC area Tuesday. The zoo closed Tuesday to accommodate its new residents, the Washington Post reports.

The National Zoo’s two new giant panda, who arrived Tuesday after an 8,000-mile flight from China, will now settle into their new home before going on display.

Hold onto your bamboo, America—the pandas are coming.After a brief panda-less era in the nation’s capital that left Washingtonians fearing their favorite bears were gone for good, two black and white diplomats are en route from Sichuan,

Panda lovers, rejoice! After nearly a year without those adorable black-and-white ambassadors, Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo is rolling out the bamboo carpet for Bao Li and Qing Bao, two new pandas fresh from China’s Sichuan province.