Days 17-19: Two Days of Boredom, then Museum

Thursday and Friday we really didn't do much.  Thursday I gave some fresh peppers that we had leftover from our grocery order to a neighbor and I watched a couple movies (one on YouTube, and I watched Evita with Kerry on his computer--the TV is useless here). Friday the big event of the day was going to Starbucks and then going shopping at Century Mart.  I'm going to try to avoid Starbucks in the future--their green tea latte iced is about 36 RMB (6 dollars) here.  Insane!

At Kerry's behest, we decided to take a day trip to the China Art Museum on Saturday.  It took about 90 minutes to get there on the subway (25 minutes to walk to the subway, then 65 minutes on the subway itself).  We saw some exquisite Chinese art, mostly contemporary stuff: oil paintings, sculptures, photographs, you name it.  The highlight for me was an animation exhibit: they were showing old Chinese animated films from the Shanghai Animation Studios and had animation cells posted on the wall.  We watched an animated film in Chinese called Three Monks--very interesting stuff!  After the exhibit, we ended up going to the mall across the street for lunch: the menu of the restaurant was varied.  They had everything from Cantonese food to Western.  Kerry opted for the hot dog, and I opted for the tuna sandwich (it had egg whites in it, interestingly enough).  Then we came home (subway to the 745 bus to a walk home), made a stop at the ATM (my first--it was successful), and collapsed.  We even skipped dinner--sooooo much walking today!!

Here are some pics from the Museum: