Today we climbed the Great Wall and toured the Summer Palace. It was a very nice day - not too warm and a nice breeze was blowing. We went up the really steep part of the wall. I'm sure our legs will be making us pay for this for the next several days. We really missed Rod today. Not only because we love him but if he had been here we could have sent him up the wall with Bailey and we could have stayed at the bottom and taken pictures!!!! Of course, Bailey was ready to go straight up to the top and then she wanted to climb out on all the little outcroppings that had a thousand foot fall under them!
After we made it up and down - going down was almost as bad as going up - we did some bargaining with some of the vendors at the foot of the wall. Bailey got an umbrella, a plaque that says she climbed the wall, a t-shirt & I got two hats and two sets of postcards. I think we paid about $10 for everything. The vendors kept saying "We make no profit - price too low" but then they would offer lower when we started to walk away.
The Summer Palace was beautiful but was packed with people. I think it would have been really nice if it hadn't been so crowded. I was afraid we would lose Bailey, so held her hand really tight! We took a dragon boat ride across the lake - it was really nice. Bailey wanted to go fishing! We had to visit several public toilets today as Bailey & Marjie just don't have the steel belted bladder that I seem to have been blessed with! I was going to post a picture of one but didn't think the true essence would carry through since we don't have smellavision on our blog!
On our way back to the hotel we went by the site of the Summer Olympics - the buildings look very cool. There is lots of construction going on all around Beijing in preparation for the Olympics.
Tomorrow we are off to Tienanmen Square and the Forbidden City and then an acrobat show in the afternoon.
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