Chinese Fast Food

Have you ever had Chinese fast food? It is really good! Our guide told us about some really good sandwiches here in Xian. She says when she comes here she buys some to take back to Beijing with her. They are called "Meat Bread". They were the best! We have had some several times and have devoured them really fast.


Here is one of the sandwiches.

Here is me eating it.

Terra Cotta Warriors

Today I visited the Terra Cotta Warriors and a recreation factory. At the recreation factory I got to make my own line warrior! It was a knealing archer. The pits that they had dug up were awesome. Pit 1 was huge! They found 6,000 warriors in Pit 1.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/terra_cotta_army/

See you in a week and a half,

Ryan

Sightseeing in Xian

Here we are in Xian. Yesterday we visited the history museum and the Wild Goose Pagoda. The history museum was very ineresting it had a lot of things I didn't know. Did you know that the silk road was started by a man named Zan Qian who was sent to the west to find allies. The Wild Goose Pagoda was really cool! I got to climb the pagoda. It wasn't actually that hard.

See you in a week and a half!

Oh, I forgot to tell you that the nihgt before this, we got lost. Well, my mom and I did. We were going to the super market which we never found and and the way back my mom made an earn turn and that's how we got lost. We were wandering around the stress of Xian for about and hour and a half but I finally saw the hotel. There are 4 million people in this city!

If you want to read more about the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, go here:

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/bigwildgoose.htm

Rebecca & Xian

We came to Xian on Sunday. We were just getting to the hotel when Rebecca came in too. We were very, very, very excited! She is so cute. She looked like she was really scared at first. I hope Emma and Rebecca get along better than me and Emma do.

Here she is!

Sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while, I’ve been really busy.
A couple of days ago we visited The Great Wall, The Birds Nest (home of the Olympics) and the Forbidden City. It was very cold. The Forbidden City was huge! When we went to the Great Wall, I went the highest. I was on the steep side too. The Birds Nest was really cool. Yesterday, we went to the Civil Affairs office to make a promise that we would take care of Rebecca for the rest of our lives. We also went to the Police office to make Rebecca’s passport. We also got our picture taken as a family. It was a very busy day. For supper we went to a McDonalds, it was different than American McDonalds. Instead of apple pies, they had red bean pies. After that my mom and I went to find a supermarket and got lost trying to find our way back to the hotel. But I saved the day because I remembered where our hotel was using relative location. LOL. Today we are going to the Wild Goose Pagoda and the History Museum. I will post more later.
See you,
Ryan

We're Here

The plane ride took forever! 13 hours of sitting in a seat with hardly anything to do and that was on the longest plane ride. We left Louisville at 8 a.m. Thursday morning Kentucky time and we're just now getting here. 28 hours of travel time! I got probably got 5 minutes of sleep. I really wished I could sit in first class but I didn't.

For dinner the food was actually pretty good. For breakfast I had fried rice. I can't wait to get Rebecca. She looks so cute. Emma is excited too. j

I had to get up at 2 a.m. yesterday morning. You betcha I was tired. I hope you are feeling good. Last but not least, use the email link.

See you in two weeks!

My Sister Rebecca

Here's my sister Rebecca. I can't wait to meet her. She looks so cute in all the pictures we have of her. I've also been able to talk to her on the computer using Skype a few times! She calls me her guh-guh (I don't think that's how you spell it, but that's how in sounds in Chinese).

We are leaving early in the morning for China. In fact I have to get up 4:30 a.m.!

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