Sunday, January 4, 2009

Provincial Museum

January 8, 2004

Jaden slept all night from 9:30 to 6am!!! We were so excited! She woke up in a great mood, just singing and smiling. We tried to find the cell phone this morning to call Mom and discovered that we had misplaced it somewhere. I guess we left it on the coach yesterday and someone kindly turned it in to Tracy so we got it back, whew! We left around 9:30 to go to the Hunan Provincial Museum and little miss spicy baby had one of her tantrums on the bus. She fell asleep finally, but boy, what a show on the way! The museum was very beautiful and is the pride of joy of Hunan Province. Three tombs that were about 2100 years old were discovered here and the relics from the tombs are displayed in the museum. One of the people buried was a 50 year old woman who was very well preserved and she is on display. She is the oldest and best conditioned corpse ever found. She still had her hair and was very soft looking. It was amazing, the tombs were buried very deep and there was silk, embroidery and all kinds of dishes and other treasures buried there. All of it was in excellent condition and didn't look 100 years old, let alone 2100! Very interesting. On the way back to the hotel, Jaden was tired and once again showed us that spicy side. She is now taking a really good and much-needed nap.
Only picture we got at the museum, cameras weren't allowed inside
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Goofing off in the playroom at the hotel
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