Today I climbed around on theGreat Wall. The driver came for me at 0 dark thirty and handed me a cup of delicious juice and a great little sandwich. As soon as it got light enough, I looked at the bag. Yep! Mcdonalds.
When we got to the Wall, this amazing group of little ladies glommed on , one for each of us,whether we wanted them or not. "We fahrmahrs.(farmers)  Come here ever day walk onna wall with nice tourist es. They were fun, showed us stuff told us"This side great wall China, that side Mongolia". Well, there is only so much behaving this girl can do, so I jumped up on the parapet, shook my fist at the Mongolian side of the world and launched into my best ever South Park "Stupid Mongolians" shtick. Sooo... it turns out our little personal escorts were actually Mongolians! Think of the irony... Dynasties of Chinese spent hundreds of years,countless lives and major fortunes building this wall so that years later hordes of Mongolians could swarm over the walls and fleece unsuspecting tourist. Yep, I payed my gal about 25$ for a ten dollar all color book about Great Wall. Our tour guide, who disappeared when then Mongolians attacked, saw me carrying the book and burst out laughing. When I told her what I payed for it she peed her pants.  She kept saying " Oh Garasuh(Grace) You sooo generous to poor little Mongolian farmers! Yuk yuk yuk. Then to ice the cake, when we had our lunch, she made me try a boiled chicken foot "Very popular Chineee food. Foreigners never try" It wasnt bad. Tasted like chicken.
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