The Stone Forest

Hi,

It has been a long couple of days, fun, but long!  Sorry for the delay in posting.

Yesterday (Wed) we went to the Stone Forest.  It is about an hour and 40 minutes away.  We drove through some beautiful mountains, saw very old farmer villages, and tons of vegetation.  It was so beautiful!  The stone forest was awesome too!

After the Stone Forest, which was a ton of walking, we had lunch at a very authentic Chinese restaurant run by some of the farmers.  The meat just sits out in the open.  They serve grasshoppers, worms, and very small fish fried whole.  The girls gobbed up the little fish like they were potato chips!  Robert tried one and said it tasted like old fish.  They also did not have any forks, so this was my first meal eating with chopstix!  I am not very good at it, but was able to shovel some food in! :-)

After lunch, we went to a Minority Museum and walked some more.  This museum has very old artifacts from all the different minority groups in Yunnan.  The difference in this museum is that you can touch all the items, pick them up and they don't scream at you, LOL!  Some of the items are even for sale! We found out that Alexa is from Yi minority group, so I bought a few items for her from the Yi group.  It was a lot of fun, but exhausting!

After the museum, we came back to the hotel and rested awhile.  I was worn out, so Robert went around the block to KFC and brought it back for our dinner.  It was a nice relaxing evening.