Journey with Julia

Found the museum pictures!

Located the right memory card and thought I would add some pics from the museum in Changsha. For me it was one of the more interesting tours we had. All of the tours were wonderful but for Ray and I as much as we love history and I love art the museum was a real treat.

Their most noted find was of course the 2001 year old woman, I'll post her picture but I'll keep the photos of her organs off the blog...I won't take you that far. LOL She was found in Hunan in complex of 3 separate tombs. I've also added her coffins....yes that's definitely plural. She was buried inside 3 coffins that were nested one into the next and all 3 housed in a huge wooden case that we saw the bottom part of in the basement and the top of we could look down through from the 2nd floor. Very cool.

Again Julia slept through part of the museum...she seems to need a power nap in the mornings ranging from 10 minutes to 30 and then she goes until after lunch (sometimes well after lunch) before her afternoon nap. That nap can be anywheres from an hour to 3 hours seems to be averaging about an hour and half to two hours.

We did find an embroidered silk bag that I intend to put away for her wedding day. The trick to all of this buying and putting away for later is of course going to be finding a place to keep it and finding it when we want it. LOL. Still have to work on that. By the way Kim, or anyone else headed to China in the future, let me know if you end up going to Hunan Province, we got a business card from the photo studio that was around the corner from the Huatian hotel. The pictures really did come out beautifully and I just couldn't describe the book that they made for us. Incredible.

Anyways. That was about it from our day at the museum. Just learning about history, artifacts and some beautiful pottery and ceramics that it's hard to believe date back as far as they do.