3 July

The day when things, changed, things happened (yes, yes, that's deliberately cryptic, not to be explained tl this blog's last post).

A trip to the TV tower observation eck on a hot, humid, hazy day with insignificant visibilty.

Lunch at the same Freedom Store where we lunched in 1997 en route to the Great Wall (and where Shayna maybe ate rice for the first time).

Then on to the Great Wall.

Would it be better than '97?

Yes it was, but not by a great deal.

We took a short cable car ride to a nasty i.e. hilly stretch of the wall. On a day that was still hot, humid, etc.

Then on to a Beijing Duck dinner. Quaaaackkk---**!!!

And after dinner, the sea change, as it were....