Changsha

Hey everybody... I want to post some pictures of the city tonight, because we've taken a ton, but I've been trying so hard to get Ruby pictures up that I haven't put up anything else...

We also have pictures from today and yesterday. Yesterday we went to a museum about the Han tombs. It's just these tombs they found here in Hunan province. An empress from the Han Dynasty was buried there. I have a few pictures that I took in there before I was informed that we're not allowed to take pictures... Today, we went to Yue Lu Academy, a 1000 year old school. It was very pretty there. We also went to an emroidery factory and an embroidery institute/museum. We got to watch some women in the middle of special order embroidery projects. You can bring a photo there, and they'll embroider it for you, but it takes like a year and it costs a ton. It was so cool to see them do it though.


Tomorrow is a free day... we'll probably do some shopping and get packed for our trip the next day to our final stop - Guangzhou. I am so excited to finally shop a lot in Guangzhou... they have the best prices there, so we've all been holding out for the deals! :D

Love you guys... Enjoy the pictures. :)

Abbie




Changsha Pictures

these next two pictures are of the view outside our hotel window












The Han Tombs Museum


some SUPER old embroidery found in the tombs





Yue Lu Academy


There was a gallery at the Academy of all these sand paintings... it was really fascinating!

a little music show at the Academy

Ruby and Claire





Embroidery







Oh, and we went swimming today in the hotel, so here's a couple of pictures of Ruby in her little swimsuit. :)