Trained Out

I'm not going to say much, but it was quite an experience today. The traffic is horrible. We almost got ran over a few times crossing the street! It's so dangerous and scary here. I am super tired, so I'll type more tomorrow.

-Lydia

Today we traveled back to Chongqing from Xiushan by train. I think we all have had our fill of trains for a while. Today on the train we got to eat lunch in the train canteen in car #14. That was an experience. They had a full kitchen and were whipping up whatever you wanted from scratch just like a restaurant. Now it wasn't as good as the restaurants we've eaten at but it was ok. Jake and Lydia stuck to rice. Jake didn't see anything that appealed to him and we didn't want Lydia to have an allergy problem between the middle of nowhere China and the middle of nowhere China. 

It is interesting that on the train they sell packaged snacks on one cart that they bring through periodically and on another cart they sell fresh fruit. Then their meals are cooked from scratch in the train kitchen. Much healthier options than America. There is certainly no obesity problem in China. They eat very healthy and walk a lot.

Below is a photo of a calligraphy artist in Chongqing doing a calligraphy painting of Violet's name to go with the ones I had done for Jake and Lydia last time. 

Also below is a photo of a baby carrying basket similar to the one I purchased in Xiushan. We just shipped that and Lydia's bamboo hat home. It cost us 5x the purchase price to ship them home. Luckily the purchase price was super cheap!  

Tonight we are going to go on a river cruise down the Yangtze River to see Chongqing at night. Craig and I did this 10 years ago and it was beautiful. 

Here are a few pics as we made our way to the train station in Xiushan along with the others mentioned above. 

-Carla