Day 9 - Wuhan

In Wuhan, we met what is no doubt the absolute cutest girl in all of china: our guide Cecilia. She was really timid in an adorable way and did things like ask members of our tour group to turn her little speaker on and off for her. To the amusement of many, I got to hold her umbrella. Everyone was just completely in love with her, especially when she suggested that we avoid our planned visit to some random pagoda and visit Hubei Provincial Museum instead since it was raining. Coming from standing in 2 days of rain in Shanghai, we were all for it. It was also fun because we were the only bus to have gone to this museum, everyone else had to trudge through the rain for yet another day.
The museum featured burial items excavated from ancient tombs. The most famous of these items is a set of ancient bronze concert bells which can apparently reproduce all, but one, of the notes from a full sized modern piano. They also had a little concert for us using replicas of those giant bells.
At the concert, we sat on these benches and tables, which I've decided will be what my homemade Go/Coffee table will look like when I get around to building it. (minus the frilly borders). After the concert we went to "Metro", which is the Wuhan equivalent of a Costco, to load up on "supplies" for our boat cruise. Anyways, not the most exciting of days. The saddest part was that Cecilia was only with us for 1 day.
It's in this town that I realized 1 thing, it's almost impossible to get dairy products in China! I was craving a tall glass of 2%, maybe even homogenized would have done it, instead of the crazy almost-cream they try to pass off as milk at breakfast. I set out walking around outside of the hotel looking at the dozens of grocery and convenience stores in the area. They had all sorts of delicious drinks (like milk and peanuts protein mix, almond milk, coconut milk, orange flavoured milk) but none of them had just plain ol', straight-up, from a cow, milk. I bought some of these almost-milks but really just wanted a real milk, so I set off to the hotel's cafe with my copy of Kary Mullis' book and decided to pay whatever exorbitant amount they deemed fit to gouge me for. When the milk came, it was the powdered stuff that they had added hot water to.
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