The Great Wall

We went to a section of the Great Wall today.  I may have found the perfect quad workout - walking up very steep steps (all of varying and unpredictable heights) in the middle of several hundred people all going different directions.  We found the solution though.  Keep going farther and higher.  By the end, we had reached the highest point of the wall in this area and there were less than 10 other people with us.  Seeing even this small section of the wall is almost indescribable.  To have built something so impressive through such remote and harsh terrain is an unbelievable feat of engineering.

Tonight we went to see a Chinese acrobat show.  After the show we took part in something even more exciting, the drive back to the hotel.  Driving is Beijing is like nothing I have ever seen before.  The traffic is bumper to bumper with someone merging in from another lane every 1/4 block or so.  Drivers are over the lane divider lines  as often as they are in their lanes.  I swear at one point we were 5 wide on a three lane road and not stopped, we were moving.  Almost no stop lights at intersections either.  Cars, bikes, mopeds, people all swerving and merging together.  Wow.  And no accidents and no signs that there had been any either.  I haven't seen a dented car since we got here.

Our internet service is slow here so we are having trouble loading the photos on the blog.  I hope to work on that tomorrow.