New room, Bad computer!!

While we were out today at the mummy museum the hotel called and said they wanted us to move to a new room. We said why?? They said they had repairs to do on the floor we were on and it would be noisy. So after we returned today we started packing everything up and the bell boy loaded us up and moved us to a new room on the 21st floor. The only problem is that this room doesn't like our laptop so we can't put any pictures up!! I can use theirs to blog without
pictures. I know all you guys really want is the pics, so we will have our guide Jessie try to help us get it fixed tomorrow.
So today we first went to the Museum of Xinjiang History. It was a very modern beautiful building with displays of many interesting things. They have areas to show many of the local minorities including Uygers.....who actually make up about 51% of the people here. They had exhibits of ancient relics, clothing, houses, jewelry, musical instruments and more. I think about 10 minorities were represented in the displays. There are actually many many minority groups here. I think she said around 48??? here in Xinjiang province. We also saw the mummy exhibit and had a museum guide who spoke English fairly well. It was very interesting, as these mummies are not the type found in Egypt for example. The mummies here are naturally made from the dry weather, and because they were buried in sand. They were very well preserved!! They had clothes on, hair, fingernails etc. Riley liked this and Sha Mei seemed to also. When we had finished at the museum we headed to the Grand Bazaar which is a local market here in Urumqi. First thing we did was eat at a traditional Uyger restaurant. I had rice with chicken, which I shared with Sha Mei. Rick and Riley both had noodles with mutton and mutton kabobs. Sha Mei can put down the meat when she is hungry!! She was eating our meal, and Rick's mutton. Our guides asked for ours to be "not spicy" so it took a little longer for us to get our food. I forgot to mention we have a local guide today and tomorrow.....Jing. She is from here in Urumqi and is very nice and speaks very good English. You may see her in our pictures when we ever get them on here!! We also have had about 20 different types of hot tea while we have been here. Today at the Uyger restaurant we had a local tea, and I could tell it was different from the others we have tasted. I must be getting the hang of it!! After eating we went thru the bazaar and saw all kinds of nuts, fruits, dries fruits, all for sale. We did buy some raisins...Sha Mei seemed to like them very much. Xinjiang is very famous for it's grapes and melons at this
time of year. We also saw clothing, jade, carpets, furs, Chinese medicine items.....very interesting!! Many very odd things that they make tea out of and drink!!! ICK is all I can say!!
We went to the market this evening and are back in the room for the night now. Hopefully we can get some pictures up tomorrow!! Love to everyone!