Mom's Latest Update
Here's my Mom's latest entry, for her perspective on the trip:
We are in Xian another city of zillions with more zillions visiting because it is the week long labor holiday. At least half of the them visited the terra cotta warriors with us yesterday and today they are all here inside the old walled city shopping.
We fooled them by getting up early and going to the top of the city wall, renting bikes and riding around the whole thing in 90 minutes before most of them were awake. It was a pretty neat bike ride - the top of the wall must be at least 40 feet wide. You can see really old stuff, demolished stuff, ugly stuff and new stuff all together.
Several days we have spent more time in buses than our hind ends have appreciated.
This evening we get on a sleeper train for Shanghai. We are hoping it is as nice as the last train we were on overnight.
The markets streets we walked down today really hit a lot of your senses. Have you ever passed at least 500 livers sitting outside on counters and seen butchers chopping up some of them?
The little kids are fun to watch - we continually get a laugh out of the little bare butts exposed through slits left open in the back of their pants for toilet training purposes.
We are in Xian another city of zillions with more zillions visiting because it is the week long labor holiday. At least half of the them visited the terra cotta warriors with us yesterday and today they are all here inside the old walled city shopping.
We fooled them by getting up early and going to the top of the city wall, renting bikes and riding around the whole thing in 90 minutes before most of them were awake. It was a pretty neat bike ride - the top of the wall must be at least 40 feet wide. You can see really old stuff, demolished stuff, ugly stuff and new stuff all together.
Several days we have spent more time in buses than our hind ends have appreciated.
This evening we get on a sleeper train for Shanghai. We are hoping it is as nice as the last train we were on overnight.
The markets streets we walked down today really hit a lot of your senses. Have you ever passed at least 500 livers sitting outside on counters and seen butchers chopping up some of them?
The little kids are fun to watch - we continually get a laugh out of the little bare butts exposed through slits left open in the back of their pants for toilet training purposes.
Joan/Mom
The father got McDonalds for his birthday lunch - yesterday's light lunch had about 15 dishes to try. It's hard to tell what I'm eating sometimes.
posted by Jenny & Matt at 1:33 AM
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