Today, we toured the General Stillwell museum. This museum is also known as the Flying Tiger museum. The Flying Tigers were a group of American and Chinese fighter pilots that fought together against the Japanese during WWII. The museum had an exhibit of WWII military furnishings, several photos and quite a bit of information on signs along the walls. Because of the history involved, it was quite fascinating.
Then, we toured Chongqing's "Old Town." "Old Town" is an area of Chongqing that was much like Beijing's hutong area. It was made up of narrow streets that you were only able to get along on by foot. It was made up of older one-story buildings and quite a few little shops that you could buy almost anything and eat almost anything. It was very crowded. This was unnerving for me because I'm uncomfortable in crowds. But it was fun and Karen did bargain some good deals on clothes for Natalie. We all drew quite a bit of attention with our new babies from the local people in the "Old Town" area.
For lunch, we sampled more of the local cuisine and for dinner we enjoyed an American styled steak dinner in one of our hotel's restaraunts. Natalie also was very fussy and grumpy at times. But, hey what baby or toddler never is. She was also very cute most of the time.
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