After our visit to Starfish Home, we headed to the Muslim quarter of Xia'n, which I also had wonderful memories of on my last visit. There are so many great stalls selling all of these wonderful paintings and different trinkets. After walking around and shopping for a bit, we went to this little hole in the wall restaurant that served noodles and soup. At first J and I weren't sure what to think of it, but once he tried the noodles, he discovered that he really liked them. We could tell this place didn't get any foreigners because everyone was staring at us, and the waitress even seemed shy to be serving us. We spent pretty much the rest of the afternoon walking around the city area of Xia'n.
That evening we went to this show that was suggested by the tour company that we were traveling with. It was supposed to represent the music and dance of the Tang dynasty. I'm not really sure if it was a true representation, because it was pretty much a show put on for foreigners, but it was fun to watch nonetheless. I think my family was still getting over there jet lag though, because my mom and J fell asleep during parts of the show. It actually reminded me of when we went to visit my sister C in Turkey and one of the first nights we were there she took us to the swirling dirvishes performance and we all fell asleep due to being still jet lagged and not on the right time zone. Luckily this performance was short and sweet, and we got home by about 9:30 p.m.
Everyone was of course exhausted again and we all crashed at the hotel very early. The one thing I was not prepared for was that the mosquito's were so terrible and woke me up on one of our first nights in Xia'n. I was prepared though for the next night, my mom bought me bug spray which was well worth it, since those mosquito's seem to love me!
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