We're still pretty tired from the last few days of touring, so will keep this brief: we arrived safely in Chengdu this afternoon, though Jill would probably rather forget the security check at the Xi'an airport, where after several suspenseful minutes of arguing with the screeners, she agreed to part with a cooling pack needed to transport Clay's medicines, in return for getting to bring the medicines themselves with her. It added much unnecessary stress to a stressful day.
Chengdu seems to be a very modern city, without that much of the past readily visible the way it is in Xi'an. We all parted with a few more yuan at the Chengdu Silk Brocade and Embroidery museum, but it was worth getting to see the process by which the brocade is woven. Ingenious!
And now, a word from the group to someone we are all missing very much on this trip:
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