Thomas George XiHong Wagner

Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Wagner Family tour Wuhan!

Last night, we did nothing.  Again.  After the emotionally charged day of meeting Director Lu and going to Xianning, we needed rest.  The whole jet lag thing has taken it toll.  I'm ok with it.  LOL!  We have not had dinner here in Wuhan as we haven't been awake actually to eat dinner.  Which is fine.

Today was a giant day of sightseeing.  Yellow Crane Tower, Hubei Provincial Museum and East Lake.  All 3 places we visited in 2005, all 3 have changed so much.  Liz and Brion who traveled with us will recognize some things.  It was a great chance for the kids to get some history in even though most of it was in Chinese.  Part of the museum had a Napoleon exhibit, which was cool!

We had our guide drop us off at Walmart.  OMG!  Yeah, it's huge.  We wondered around and bought chips and sodas.  There was a lady who looked at me, looked at Julia.  Looked back at me and smiled.  I smiled back and as we passed her she yelled, "Ni Hao!  Very loudly.  Like she got that we are an American family with a Chinese daughter.  She smiled and smiled.  Almost to say thank you without saying thank you and without having a clue as to what to really say to us.  We did not take any pictures of the weird things we saw in the store.  I find that to be disrespectful.  We all know the Chinese eat/prepare thing differently.  It's just my opinion.

I will be posting a lot of pictures that really need no captions.  Just things we saw today.  :)



























































































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