Silas: The museum and beef noodles in Lanzhou, and Traveling to Guangzhou

On Thursday, we went to the Lanzhou museum.  There were dinosaur bones, Buddhist art, and pottery that we saw.  My favorite thing was the dinosaur stuff.  My favorite part was the elephant bones.  The elephant bones are said to be the best preserved skeleton in the world.  They found the bones near the Yellow River in the sand dunes. The skeleton is about twice as large as a normal African elephant.

The main dish is beef noodles in Lanzhou.  The noodles are very skinny.  You usually only get one slice of beef, though.  The broth that the noodles are in is very soupy and brown and it is clear not creamy.  They eat it any meal including breakfast.

The flight to Guangzhou on Friday was about 3 hours long.  It was a normal airplane without TVs.  It seated about 250 people.  It took an hour just to get from the hotel to the airport in Lanzhou.  It took an hour after we got to the airport in Guangzhou to get to our hotel there.  So it took a total of about 6 hrs.

Guangzhou has about 13,000,000 people in it.  A lot of people here speak English.  They speak Cantonese as their main language here.  In Lanzhou it was a desert.  In Guangzhou it's a tropical place and it is very warm.