At Your Own Risk

Another 9:30 meeting with our tour guide, Baoli, today. We were off to see the Xi'an Expo Garden where BaoLi's husband, Harry, works. We made a quick stop at Harry's office before taking an elongated golf-cart-vehicle to a market and walking around the market. The market sold anything you could possible imagine - from bras to smoking pipes and anything in-between. There were even a few on-the-go dentists, eye doctors, ear cleaners, and foot cleaners.

BaoLi then took us to a restaurant nearby for lunch. Lunch was a crepe dish to which you could add sweet pork and eggs. There was also a type egg soup and some "pumpkin pies" (a small roll with bean paste) that BaoLi ordered for Montana and LuRue's sweet tooth. 

After lunch, we headed for the expo garden. There were many, many people inside the park. We got a VIP tour in the golf-cart car. The garden was a place made for the International Horticultural Exposition 2011. It had things from many different countries including France, Africa and Italy. It was also a very popular wedding picture area. Harry took us to places like the dinosaur museum, different pavilions, a theme park and the center of the park - a 13 story high building with a great panoramic view of the park. It was a great place to people-watch. We were going to go into garden with plants from all over the world, but sadly, it was past closing time. 

Our drive back involved some crazy driving according to LuRue. Montana didn't notice a thing, probably because she has adapted since India and Tanzania. We arrived at the hotel around 7 with lots of stuff to do, but our taste buds were screaming at us, so we were forced into stopping by Baskin Robbins before finishing the day with writing journals, photo editing and getting ready for tomorrow.