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Bill and I got back from visiting his familly for thanksgiving on Saturday and spent yesterday in recovery. His family is a little stressfull. Many video games were played.
The highlight was Friday when we went to the Asian Art Museum. They have oracle bones!!!!! They were so much smaller than I imagined. I was picturing giant turtles, but they were just little fragments. Still very amazing. The collection of Bronzes were really neat. We spent the most time in that room. I even managed to pick up a book in a used book store on the collection before we went. Though it didn't have the really cool bronzes that were on display that are the tao-te(sp) head over a human head, that have been used in the pro-shamanisim arguement on Chinese religion. So those were also really exciting to see. They also had so really great funeral objects from the Tang, giant tomb guardians. But after that the collections were a little disapointing, though they did have a neat section of Tibetean bone work. Including a skull jug.
After that we went to China town, for a bit. We'd asked if we could eat there, then at the museum people were trying to get out of it, Bill's brother in law suggested going to Japan town. I pointed out that I wasn't wanting to go to grad school for Japanese studies. We only got about 45 minutes to look around. It was sooo touristy. But we managed to find the book shop, were I picked up a monkey King comic book, the first part of journey to the west. And some workbooks for practicing idioms which will be very usefull. Then we managed to find the DVD store and I picked out Bride with White Hair, and the movie based on the French novel I just finished reading, The Little Chinese Seamstress (which was in Chinese and Very good!)
So that made the trip worthwhile, and Bill was able to go through his old things and find some treasures to bring back. (Like the Empire pop-up book, and his old French notes which will be usefull to me, and his old Czech notes which will be usefull to him). Not the worst Thanksgiving ever. But made me really look forward to Christmas when it'll just be us and the cat!
The highlight was Friday when we went to the Asian Art Museum. They have oracle bones!!!!! They were so much smaller than I imagined. I was picturing giant turtles, but they were just little fragments. Still very amazing. The collection of Bronzes were really neat. We spent the most time in that room. I even managed to pick up a book in a used book store on the collection before we went. Though it didn't have the really cool bronzes that were on display that are the tao-te(sp) head over a human head, that have been used in the pro-shamanisim arguement on Chinese religion. So those were also really exciting to see. They also had so really great funeral objects from the Tang, giant tomb guardians. But after that the collections were a little disapointing, though they did have a neat section of Tibetean bone work. Including a skull jug.
After that we went to China town, for a bit. We'd asked if we could eat there, then at the museum people were trying to get out of it, Bill's brother in law suggested going to Japan town. I pointed out that I wasn't wanting to go to grad school for Japanese studies. We only got about 45 minutes to look around. It was sooo touristy. But we managed to find the book shop, were I picked up a monkey King comic book, the first part of journey to the west. And some workbooks for practicing idioms which will be very usefull. Then we managed to find the DVD store and I picked out Bride with White Hair, and the movie based on the French novel I just finished reading, The Little Chinese Seamstress (which was in Chinese and Very good!)
So that made the trip worthwhile, and Bill was able to go through his old things and find some treasures to bring back. (Like the Empire pop-up book, and his old French notes which will be usefull to me, and his old Czech notes which will be usefull to him). Not the worst Thanksgiving ever. But made me really look forward to Christmas when it'll just be us and the cat!