Day 11

7.2.09

Today we departed for Xi’an at 11:45 in the morning, leaving glorious Beijing for the rest of our time in China. We both agree that we prefer it over Shanghai, though Shanghai has many, many interesting places to go. Our first stop after leaving the airport was a museum, filled with ancient Chinese history. It included pottery, scrolls, different forms of ancient Chinese script, musical instruments and much more. Tonight we were treated to an amazing feast of dumplings and a show and a theatre, I believe it was called the Sunrise Theatre or something like that. At first, they served the appetizers and lots of people thought it was just the meal, but then came the mountains upon mountains of dumplings! The steamers full of them seemed to never coming, even I f there were 5 left in one, the servers brought 2 more to take its’ place. They contained everything from crushed walnuts, vegetables and chicken to duck, beef, and about 30 others! Then, if the amazing dinner wasn’t enough, the show came on! There were dancers and singers and everything was colorful and fluid, telling stories with it all. Everyone was impressed, and went back to the hotel feeling pleased and contented.