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Great wall!

All your life you have these things you would like to do sometime, always knowing that there is a good chance that you may never do them. These 3 weeks in Beijing, I have been able to check off so many of those "bucket list items". Did you know that the Great wall is huge? Did you know that it is not flat? For some reason I had pictured a wall being flat, call me crazy but I was not expecting the best cardio work-out of my life to happen on the great wall of China!
It was SO amazing to be there, to think about the history, the amount of people and time it took to build, and to be able to witness the Father's creation at its best!

To get up to the wall you had several options, you could take a chair lift or walk. Jeremy said his mom had walked up, therefore my competitive side made me walk. It was hard, but I was okay with knowing I would be done once I got to the wall....all this to say my legs were sore the next day and when given the choice to walk or ride down...I chose to ride. But not only Ride but SLED down! That's right, we had a five minute slide all the way down the mountain! It was SO much fun! I have video but it is bumpy and long, but what a way to end an amazing adventure!

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