Jocelyn Writes:
Marilyn Shapiro, our friend from New York, is visiting us in Xi'an this week. Ayden, Ben and I have had the pleasure of revisiting some of our favorite spots with her on Monday and discovering and exploring new ones on Tuesday. Gavi joined us Tuesday too (and will be rejoining the blog shortly...) ALSO Ayden updated the blog entry on Yunnan Province--scroll down and take a look!
--Joc
Ayden Writes:
This past weekend my mom’s friend came to visit us in Xi’an, China. Her name is Marilyn, and she arrived Friday afternoon. We went out to a Peking Duck restaurant for dinner. Marilyn brought four jars of peanut butter, books, 2 bathing suites, nuts and dried fruit. I was very glad to see her. We picked her up at her hotel and brought her back to our dorm room. We showed her what a Chinese dorm room looks like.
The next day we went to the peasant farmer painter’s village. The peasant farmers are a group of people who paint pictures. The peasant farmers work out of the city, it took us about one hour to get there. When we got to the peasant farmers’ studio, it seemed like a part of their house. All of their paintings are beautiful. They paint pictures of things that they see. I was allowed to get one painting for my room in America. It was so hard to choose a painting. Finally, I chose a picture of flowers with a few birds. I had a lot of fun at the peasant farmer painters’ studio.
After the peasant farmers, we went to a Taoist temple. This was my sixth temple since we arrived. Six temples is enough for me. We also went on horses part way up a mountain.
On Monday we went to the Big Goose Pagoda and the Little Goose Pagoda. The Big Goose Pagoda I have already been to, but it was my first time to the Little Goose Pagoda. I didn’t go to the top of the Big Goose Pagoda because I was too tired. I did go to the top of the small pagoda. Climbing was really tiring, when I got to the top it was SO beautiful. We also went in a museum that was all about Xi’an. I had an amazing time at all of these sights.
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Hi Ayden,
It sounds like you are really enjoying yourselves and are having a blast it sounds much cooler than I imagined. It also seems like you doing what we did in Denmark but I was plain board of seeing castles (i know how you feel).
Well I cant wait to hear more.
Annika
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