Day 2- Great Wall

March 25
We had another good day! We had breakfast in the hotel and I loaded up! From breakfast we went to the jade factory and learned all about jade! It was beautiful! We even made a few purchases! From there we went to the Great Wall! It is incredible. It is huge and the steps are crazy! There might be 1 or 2 short ones and then 3 or 4 really tall ones. They are very uneven and very steep! Tony's back has not been very good today, I think it's these really hard single beds we are sleeping on! But anyway, we did climb to the first pagoda and took some pictures and then came back down! It was beautiful! From there it was lunch time! George had that set up for us again. He even got me a bowl of sweet and sour chicken that I liked! So lunch wasn't too bad. They did bring a whole fish out, head to tale! I took a picture of it, but we are having trouble getting the iPad to cooperate with pics so I will have to post those later! Plus it takes awhile and we have to be up early in the morning for our flight out of here. After lunch we went to see the birds nest that they built during the Olympics. 
It was pretty neat. The street vendors were terrible though. They tried to sell us kites, toys,etc.... A lady even chased Tony down to sell him this toy! They don't give up easy! And then we went to the acrobatic show! Kit was really good, but we were exhausted! And when we got ready to leave there were people and traffic everywhere! Our group got separated and Julie(a mom in our group) walked into traffic and stopped it, it was scary, because they do not stop for pedestrians here! But we all mad sit safely back to the bus! And then finally back to the hotel! We had to pack and get our things ready since we leave in the morning! We have to be in the lobby at 7:00am to meet George! I think that sums up our day! I can't believe we only have 2 more sleeps till we get Emery! We have a great group traveling with us and it seems that all the children are pretty close in age so it should be fun. One family is getting 2 girls, they actually get 1 of them tomorrow! And 2 other families get their children tomorrow. Anyway, I think that's it, we are going to sleep now! Thanks for all the prayers!