The Great Wall

Ha ha - Isn't that photo a hoot?!

One of my must-see's while in China was the Great Wall. We trekked about 1 1/2 hours outside of Beijing to see a "nicer" area of the wall. You know every now and then when you see something and think "wow, my life just changed a little bit after seeing that". Well, the Great Wall was like that for me. I can't fully describe the oldness of it. Not that it was falling apart, but you looked at the stones, the layout, the coldness of the stones and the smell and it all just screamed history.



A group of us took the chair lifts to the top and walked around a bit. The wall isn't really a continuous wall. It has several off shoots along the way. And several places to climb up/down to enter. One of our colleagues warned us that we could get lost. "Sure" we said. Until we realized that we'd lost half of our party in front of us because they'd exited the wall and we were still going. Yikes! A frantic run around and we found them. Then rode the luge down. The luge would have been insanely fun, except one of our colleauges leading the luge had a bum one that wouldn't go fast. So the rest of us were riding down with our breaks on for most of the ride.