We are back!!! We made it to terra firma with no more than the minor aches and pains of flying 13+ hours on your backside! Numb bums were definitely a problem! The cried like a baby when the kids ran outside and gae us such huge smiles and hugs and would not let us go for even one second the entire night until they went to bed! I shed many a tear while away missing them and thinking they would have had a brilliant time with us. Patrick has agreed that we will NEVER go away for so long without them again!!!!
Our trip was fantastic and I will attempt to tell the tale interspersed with the frolics of the kids while we were away.
Highlights:
Beijing-
Youth restaraunt: fantstic if your dieting or need to lose a bit of weight. The menu is about 10 pages long and by the time oyu get to the end you are soo not hungry. You jsut start thinking of how you can get uop and leave without anyone noticing. Standard dishes on offer included: Dog meat, sea cucumber (slug thing), pigs lungs, duck tongues, chicken feet, boneless chickenfeet thai style, roast chicken (head and feet and innards included I think they just defeather it and chuck it in the oven seriously), intestine, liver, any other offal you can imagine, preserved goose liver, jellied kidneys, and believe me I could go on and on....
Great Wall of China: immense, amazing, steep, phenomenal more about this later. Lovely views of farms and donkeys frolicking in the villages coming up to the section we visited, and then we passed the donkey meat processing plant.. plain rice and noodles for lunch again please!
more to come...
Kids went camping wiuth their Auntie Folly- Adam did anyway... Adam went iceskating... visited a farm.... discoed his rear off... and barely found time to speak to us in our daily phone calls.
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