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Mr. Lei, our guide, showed up a half-hour early today. We got in a van and drove 2 hours through the countryside to a remote spot on the Great Wall.
 Grandpa, Bill, Grace and the children then climbed 1500 steps up to the wall.
leading up to the Great Wall  Our family were the only tourists there. I was so proud of my wife for climbing to the top. Parts of the wall were crumbling.
 The wall snaked up and down steep mountainsides. Going down was a lot easier than going up. It was close to a huge concrete dam that had no water near it.
 We stopped at a Cloisonne Factory on the way back from the Great Wall. We got to see artisans at work.
 Then we bought a beautiful vase for a souvenir.
 The young ladies who worked at the shop were friendly and seemed to enjoy using English. The Chinese love to make sales. If you buy one thing they will try to sell you two! All the people we have met so far have been cheerful and helpful. We don't think we would like to drive in China. The people drive very fast and very close together. We haven't seen any signs of Christians in this great country. We have seen Muslims and Buddhist priests. China is referred to at least once in the Bible:
and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim." On the way back to the hotel from the Great Wall, we also stopped at a Silk Factory. We learned about the life cycle of the silk worms. A single silk worm spins a cocoon of a single thread over a mile long. They have a machine that unravels eight cocoons at a time and spins them into a single strand of thread.
at the Silk Factory  The Chinese are great marketers. After a tour of the museum with a (museum personnel) guide, we were ushered onto a sales floor full of silk quilts. Driving back into Beijing after our busy day of touring, we saw the massive construction projects underway for the 2008 Olympics. Workers were busy even in the darkness of night. We are two days away from getting Kayli!!!
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