Thursday, August 19, 2010

Xi'an - Day 8 - Finally...Sleep!

Hooray!  All three of us slept thru the night, you can't imagine how much better we feel. Lia willingly went to her crib at 7:30 last night, and Steve and I were in bed by 8:30 ourselves... At 7 am we were up and off to the breakfast buffet and now we are back in our room enjoying some free time and packing up our things to leave for Guangzhou in a few hours...but back to yesterday...here are some of our favorite pics:

Daddy's got some big shoes to fill!
Hey...this guy looks like my daddy!


Lia is like a rockstar wherever she goes...drawing a crowd!
Steve's head was perfectly proportioned for "The General"
2,000 unearthed soldiers in this room alone...an amazing sight...
the 8th Wonder of the World! (Steve says "Lia is the Ninth!!!)

Taken by our guide...the "pit" behind us is the size of eight football fields.
Lia even let mama hold her for awhile at the Museum.
This is what she was pointing at. Her favorite part of the tour.
She said "baby" (which is what we call her doll). I think she thought this was a giant doll.

7 comments:

Jennifer Wilde said...

How fun! I'm glad you're getting to explore with her and get to know her in her country. When do you guys come home?

Unknown said...

Whoohooo! We have been waiting all day for this!!!! Love the pictures!!!

Julie and Steve said...

Hi Jen! We are headed to Guangzhou today, and will be on a plane back to the U.S. on the 27th! Still another week to go... :)

Megan in Denver said...

Thank goodness...I was getting the shakes from photo withdrawl! :)

Beth and Shayna said...

So glad you got some sleep, that helps out so much! I have to say, there are so many pictures that are captured of Lia where I swear she resembles you. It is so crazy how that happens. Have a safe flight to GZ and have fun!

Tracy Dart said...

Can't wait to see photo's of Lia at the White Swan on the red couch!!! The Terra Cotta Warriors look amazing. Can't wait for next Friday!

Betsy said...

Again... I am crying happy tears from just looking at your sweet pics and captions (9th Wonder of the World... crying again!). And how cool that you saw the "soldiers". I recently just read about that in Smithsonian and thought how unbelievable it would be to see that in person!