15 years in the making

Finally after waiting for so long i finally got to see the Terra Cotta warriors from the Chin Empire. I went to see an exhibit at BYU when i was in the 6th grade at it amazed me. It was actually a pretty lame exhibit that only had pictures of the actual artifacts but even then i remember thinking how amazing it would be to actually see the real warriors. At the time the only way to see the warriors was to go to China. As a 6th grader that seemed impossible for me but i remember thinking to myself that i would somehow get there too see them. Phil also remembered seeing the BYU exhibit in the 6th grade. Apparently he was not as affected by it but he was still excited to come along with me.
Any ways, i got so excited when i found out that the National Geographic Museum was hosting the touring exhibit straight from China. After finding out that the tickets to the show were way too expensive for us to afford my dear sweet husband did some research and found out that they did a free day. So we bundled up Libby and got all the way there but when we got to the line at the museum we ended up being 201 and 202 in the line and they only gave out 200 tickets. We were soooooo close i just couldn't turn around and leave so i went to the ticketing agent and literally begged her to let us in. With some good persuasion and alot of luck I talked her in to giving us two tickets to get in. The exhibit was absolutley awe inspiring. We walked into a dark room and looked up at these warriors and it was just haunting - it was as if they had taken live men and just painted them in clay. It is still hard to believe they had been in the ground standing there in their rows since 400 BC. It was really cool . I was so glad we got to go