Team Bonding on The Great Wall!

Hello everybody!

As I mentioned in my last post today was all about cultural assimilation and team bonding while taking in some of the most spectacular things China has to visit. We started nice and early at the Forbidden City. Guys it is so massive. Like HUGE! It takes about an hour and a half to walk straight through. Straight through. It has amazing detailed painting on all the pillars, roofs, everywhere. There are also lots of fun statues, my favorite was the turtle with a dragon head! 

Me with my favorite turtle dragon :-D

Me, Joanne, and Lois

The whole team! Anna (my roommate), Kim (Our Leader), Barb (My Mentor), Cathy, Amy, Joanne (Who took almost all these photos), Lois, Me, Jenna, Kara

Barbra deemed herself a photography model by the end of the day with how many photos she was asked to be in. 

After lunch we took a rather harrowing ride to The Great Wall. We have a very good bus driver, but it can be a little unnerving the way they pass each other and bikes on the side of the road heading straight for oncoming traffic, or on blind corners. I was already pretty used to it from Vietnam, but poor Lois was freaking out.

Then we had my highlight of the day. We walked up a stretch of The Great Wall of China. And friends I do very much mean up! Barb stayed at the bottom because after walking so much in the Forbidden City she was not up to hiking, which is a totally fair feeling for someone in their mid-seventies! Kim was a little worried about leaving her at the bottom by herself and said "I'll just go quickly up towards the top and then come back down to keep Barb company. I don't want her to be lonely." I  didn't even have to think about my reply. "Lonely. Yeah right Kim! You and I both know that she'll have taken at least twenty photos with people by the time we make it back down." I will write more tomorrow. Literally falling asleep and typing nonsense...which I think is a good sign that sleep time is now.

Goodnight loves!