Photos of the Biggest Wall in the World

Hello my friends.

My goodness I was talking nonsense at the end of the last post! I fell asleep at least three times writing the last sentences and when I looked at them this morning I saw that I should have given up because it was not understandable. It was English words, but not English sentences! It is fixed now if any of you were wondering what I was trying to say. I never knew I could sleep type before....and I don't recommended it based on my results!

Now let's flash back to yesterday. Here is my translator and his wife. She also speaks very good English and hung out with us for the day. She is not coming with us when we go south to the orphanage and was jokingly trying to convince Barb to stay behind and go to her job at a major college here. It is beautiful to see how well and how quickly Barb connects with the people here. We regularly turn to see her wondering off to greet some super cute little Chinese kids, which usually turns into a photo shoot.

Shawn and Cindy. Aren't they such a cute couple?!

The wall is remarkably uneven in the height of the steps. The builders just followed the rise and fall of the land without making any effort to even it out. Sometimes a three inch step will be followed by a ten inch one. This means you have got to pay close attention to where you are stepping the whole time....unless of course you desire to go tumbling down the equivalent of six stories of stairs!

My little babushka and me at the bottom in the plaza

Barb, Cathy, (top) Lois, Anna, Kara, (top) Jenna, Joanne, Me, Kim, Amy

Aren't we all so fabulous?

After a long and active day we were all pretty hungry for dinner. We had some confusion and needing to shuffle around when we first got to the restaurant for dinner because they put us in a room for eight, but after we tried for a while to squeeze four more chairs in, they found us a bigger room with a large enough table for the twelve of us to be together.

Chilling waiting for the food

So delicious!

The food comes out one at a time, and I was already full and tired so I laid back and my team thought they got a photo of me napping, but if you look closely you can see I'm trying not to laugh and ruin her picture because I was awake the whole time.

Time for me to pack and eat breakfast now. We are leaving soon to go to the hotel near the orphanage we are working at. A few hours of flying, followed by a few of bussing...and then we will be that much closer to the kids!!!