Thursday, August 09, 2007

pandas

They are so cute.  I just want to take one home.  Not sure how the government would feel about it.  Wanted to wrestle them, but the panda wresting program was closed the day we were there.  Either that or our stellar tour guide could not figure out how to translate that and just told me that it was closed.

I think we may have seen a million bikes by now.  The road we drove down today was two lanes and we shared it with cars, trucks, bikes, oxen, and people wearing crazy hats carrying goods to market on their backs.  From all we have seen i would remind people to buy their fruits and veggies from local suppliers.  The corn and pomegranites were grown beside the coal mine.  We haven't seen blue sky since we climbed the Great Wall with half a billion chinese folks.  Aiden is a rock star here.  I think strangers have taken more photos of him than we have. 

Saw the worlds largest sitting buddha today.  We had to hike down 303 stairs and stares.  Felt like we had landed in the wall less people zoo.  I was waiting for someone to start throwing popcorn at me. 

And let me tell you popcorn would have tasted pretty good.  Treesa and I are engaging in vegetable porn.  We imagine salads with dressings (and even naked sometimes), fruits that have not been grown on the side of the road and rice from a patty no one has peed in.

Off to kunming tomorrow.  New adventures await.

t & t

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