Ropers in Xi'an China

It's been a great three days.  We've walked our little legs off and seen many parts of the area.  Xi'an is a hustling and bustling city.  There are people and cars and bicycles and buses and scooters everywhere you go.  Horns are honking along every street and side walk.  the people are busy and everyone is off to somewhere, but they're always willing to stop and give a helping hand to us US visitors who can't figure out what's what, even though most of them don't speak English. Our apartment is located in a hotel owned by the university.  When we first walked into the lobby, we were in awe.  Marble floors, huge porcelain vases, water fountains, and white leather couches.  It was beautiful.  Our apartments are very nice as well.  We have one bedroom with a living room, kitchen, office and bathroom.  Here are some pictures: This is the kitchen.  There is a microwave on the tope of the refrigerator.  A hot pad was i...

This is our apartment building in the background. It rained off and on all day.   Found a bakery shop.  We'll have to try this place.  Don't you love the doll cakes?  😂 Had our first Chinese meal with Barbara, Vivian and Mark.  Don't really know what most of it was.  😏

It was a long flight This was breakfast???

After 29.5 hours from the time we left our home Sunday morning at 7:30 and the time we finally arrived to our apartment at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, we have made it.  Oh we are so tired but sleep just wasn't our friend even after we got here. Everything went fairly smoothly though.  We were at the airport in plenty of time and it turned out to be the only time we just sat and waited at an airport.  At LAX there was no time to spare.  In Shanghai, even though we had a 3 hour layover, it took that long to get through all the customs, finding our luggage, going back through security, rechecking our luggage, going through more security and finally finding our way to the gate where we boarded a shuttle that took us to our flight, just in time to take off!!  Once we got to Xi'an it took us an hour to find Oliver who was meeting us and taking us to our apartment.  Then it was another hour drive on a university bus and another hour to get us checked into our apart...