Terra Cotta Army Wow

Wow. That is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of seeing this. One of the farmers that discovered this was signing books in the souvenir shop which was neat. This museum is truly wonderful. What a great job they are doing of preserving the find and no telling what they will uncover as they continue to excavate the area. At any rate, we loved it. Jim had a wheelchair and his own personal "guide" and that was wonderful. It made for a super day. After spending several hours at this museum, we went to lunch at a local restaurant which was really good. Their specialty is sugared potatoes. These are like irish potatoes with a cruist of caramelized sugar on them. It is most unusual and good. The chef demonstrated making noodles without any knives and it was like watching a master pizza maker throw the crust! Of course, the restaurant had its little stalls of merchants on the way to the restrooms. We are getting more used to handling this anyway and it can be quite amusing sometimes.

On the way back to Xi'an from lunch, we stopped at a local primary school that GCT helps sponsor. The children were delightful and we really enjoyed it. The rural schools are much different than the urban schools and it was a very interesting presentation. And they were very interested in Chris, our little boy on the tour. He is really cute and so well behaved that we all just love him. The students asked his name and what he liked to do,etc. It was fun.

After we got back to Xi'an we rested awhile and then Jim, Allen and I struck out walking. We actually walked a long way to the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower. We were just able to do it slowly where Jim could go and then stop and rest. It worked and this was something he really wanted to do. I will try to post photos of some of this.

One thing that is funny is that when we try to communicate with children, whether it be in the home hosted meal earlier or today at the school, one of the questions that just naturally pops off our lips is "Do you have brothers and sisters." With China's one child policy, the children seem really lost when we ask them that-as if they don't fathom the idea. It is interesting.

Here in Xi'an the clothes are drying much faster in our rooms than in Shanghai. That is great as we were getting worried.
I will stop and post some photos. I give up. I have tried every way I know how to get the photos to post tonight and they just won't come up. I'll try again tomorrow.