Sometimes, you cannot take enough photos

Sometimes, you can't take enough photos
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It is taking flickr about 15 minutes to upload photos so you will have to wait till we get home before we can share the rest. We took this photo for our friend Shon. Today we traveled with our group, aka Jianxji Famiies to see China-In-A-Day--we went to the Forbidden City, Tianamen Square and the Great Wall. Some highlights--crowds--huge crowds of mostly Chinese tourists--lined up for a 2 hour wait to see Chairman Mao in his well-peserved glass coffin---(not included in our tour) Gloriou temple after temple--scenes from the Last Emperor--within the forbidden city and the Great Wall, which is very steep but we kept on going and I think David went to the highest point of anyone in our group. left as it was getting dark. We have two young blonde boys in our group--aged 5 and 9--who kept getting surrounded by crowds who wanted to take their pictures or touch their hair. They took in the attention with alot of poise. We have a few families who got in late last night and did the entire tour today--everyone was very good natured and high spirited. At the end of the day, we got our schedule for tomorrow and had to rush to change some of our fees into Yeun---make some more copies, organize things--tomorrow our luggage has to be out in the hall by 6:30 am--we leave at 8:30 for the airport to Nanchang, then we get our children at 3 pm. Our guide, the ever pleasant and forward thinking Rui, then suggested we all order Papa John's pizza, and had this ordered for us as we were driving back to the hotel. Tomorrow is the big day and we get Grace--but I wanted to get this posted. Don't worry there are 95 more to share when we get home--plus video.