Well November 15, 2008 was our last field trip outing with the Flagship program. We visited the Nanjing Historical Remains Museum, which was also the Presidential Palace(China's version of the White House) before the communists took over China. This wasn't one of the most intriguing places we have been but it was something new to do.
Waiting to go in
People flock to Clara, wherever we are. Sometimes they grab her and hold her and want a picture with her. I think she is pretty famous in China, but I always joke that when they go back to the US she isn't going to know what to do without all the attention.
The outside of the the museum.
The Flagship group listening intently to the tour, except for Caleb and he is in the back giving us the traditional Chinese pose.
Me with some pretty flowers, sporting the Chinese pose.
Jake getting ready to walk into the museum.
This was some really neat artwork towards the top of the building as we were walking in.
Jake and Clara with a picture of Sun Yat-Sen and the other founders of the Republic of China in the background. (It's neat because the people are in red, and it makes the shape of the ROC flag that still flies in Taiwan)
The Vice-President's office.
The Garden out back with lots of beautiful flowers.
So in this one part there were a bunch of beautiful flowers.
I think if we would have come just a week earlier these flowers would have been perfect, but as you can see they were on the way out.
Clara smelling the flowers, afterward she had pollen on her face.
Jake wanted to take a picture of the round bush, so I got to stand in.
I just thought this looked really neat.
Statue outside one of the museums. This museum was established to commemorate the negotiations between the KMT(Nationalists) and CCP(Chinese Communist Party). This statue is of Zhou En-Lai who led the communist delegation. Because the communists won, the entire museum is skewed to meet their perspective/agenda, but basically there were negotiations that lasted about a year. The two parties were trying to figure out a way to peacefully rule the country together, but they failed, and civil war broke out, and the KMT eventually fled to Taiwan, while the CCP still controls China today.
Jake inside the museum. This is a huge statue with all of the main CCP negotiators.
An old sweet Buick that Zhou En-lai would cruise around in. Buicks are still really popular in China today, in large part because Zhou En-lai and Sun Yat-sen both drove them.