It's Saturday again and we decided to go on another fun filled family day trip. I had asked Alice about the dinosaur museum I had heard about and she said it was a two hour drive from Chengdu. Very doable so that's where we headed today. First off road trips are not nearly as fun when you can't drive. Second, don't trust anyone to know how long it will take to get somewhere! It took THREE AND A HALF HOURS!
You know how when you get the first millimeter snowfall of the winter and everyone starts driving like morons and ending up in the ditch? Well its kinda like that here too except with rain. We saw five accidents one of which was a bus that had hit the guard rail. Luckily it didn't go over the ravine!
Anyway our driver got lost so we had to back track and finally ended up at the Zi Gong Dinosaur Museum. Halleluja!
A Szechuanosaurus? This seriously made me laugh. Then again I think there is an Albertasaurus because it was found in Alberta...but that doesn't seem nearly as funny as this.
It was a little wet out.
After an hour or so of trekking around the museum we went into Zi Gong town and found a McDonalds before starting back to Chengdu. It took us an hour to go 10 Kilometers because of this obviously-not-speeding-at-all-truckdriver(no sarcasm whatsoever.) He jackknifed his trailer so bad he drove right back over top of it.
So it took us three and a half hours to get there and four hours and 45 minutes to get back along one of the worst highways the 'Chengyu' from Chengdu to Chongqing. Did we have fun? Aside from the more than eight hours of driving; yes. Would I recommend it? No. Unless you could find a better way to get there. That highway was seriously scary!
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