What goes Down, Must come back UP

The title of the post today was Zane's idea. As you might have guessed today was our Great Wall Day!!!

This picture is for Kaylee, Trent and Mia. Zane really wanted them to see our Guide, Angela's little dog. Her name is Gwhy Gwhy, which means good dog in China. He is very cute and Zane has had fun playing with him.

We drove about 1 1/2 hours out of the city to a very beautiful part of the wall. David and I had not seen this before. For the first part of the Great Wall we had to take a Ski lift up to the top of the Mountain. I don't knoow if you can tell but the men literally push you out of the seat when you get to the top.

Then once we arrived at the top we spent time going up an down the wall. Angela was very smart in that she took us very far down first. Although with each step going down I knew there would be a coming back up.

It was a truly spectacular view. This section of the wall is so calm and serene. And then the real fun began.

Instead of taking the ski lift back down we rode a toboggan slide down the side of the mountain on little black roller cars. It had one stick in the front that made it either go or stop.

Zane loved it and he and David actually rode it twice.

For lunch we stopped at the Golden Arches. The fries and coke were reallly good. then after lunch we drove back to the market and did a little more shopping and bartering.

For dinner we went to Old Beijing Noodle House. Apparently this style of noodle is only availabe in Beijing. The restaurant is old style. When people walk in the door they yell and each waiter tries to direct you to his particular table. We felt like we were in Ci Ci's pizza there for a while.

Jane McLendon will be so proud of us for all the new things we have tried so far. And we have only been here a few days. I have even eaten Tofu for the last 3 days. It's been hard to get used to the little bitty plates and chopsticks but we are all getting the hang of it. The dish on the left side of the picture is celery and Lotus Flower. It's very good. On the right is Beijing Pork. This is Zane's favorite thing that we have had.

Here is Angela mixing up the noodles for us.

This was the biggest surprise to us all. It's BokChoy with soybean and fish head sauce. It is really good, Really it is.......I promise.