We woke up early to fly from Beijing to Xi'an. It was a two hour flight that went by quickly. They served us a breakfast of rice goo that is similar to oatmeal but with no flavor. We also got a bag of apple chips and a cheese, mayo, and cucumber sandwich on white bread.
We had to keep traveling after we landed and made it to the city in time for lunch which was buffet style in a nice dinner theater setting. We didn't see a show. The food was FINALLY significantly different. We had noodles! They were delicious!
After lunch we visited the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It's a famous Buddhist temple. We learned about the history of Buddhism, got to rub the Happy Buddha's belly and learned more about our birth year animals. I'm a Dragon year baby so everyone was calling me the Dragon Lady. She was a famous emperoress who ran the show behind her weak minded husband emperor.
Later we visited the Xi'an History Museum. In the front of the museum is a huge bronze lion that was made during the ruling of the only female emperor. During her 15 years of rule she had two lions made to guard the tomb of her mother. Only one has been found. They were there to represent girl power so all the women on the trip had their photo taken in front of it.
We were scheduled to climb the city wall but everyone was pretty tired so we changed our plans. #gofigure #imseeingatrendhere We will do that tomorrow. Instead we checked into our very nice hotel (still insanely hard beds) and changed for the dinner theater. Dinner was even better than lunch. We had about 10 different kinds of dumplings, beer, and wine. Can't ask for much more than that! The show was actually really entertaining; traditional Chinese music and dance from the Tang (tongue) Dynasty. Back to the hotel to sleep and prepare for another big day. #imseeingatrendheretoo They are calling for rain. Hope that holds off for our touring!
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