October 14

Well I don't know if I am happy or sad. Something that we had been looking forward to for so long is now all over! On the plus side, all the students are back in Perth safe and sound.
On the minus side, it will be ages before something so mind blowingly amazing happens again.

I am also delighted to be able to get on the net again. The access while we were in China was not as good as we had hoped, so the blog will be mainly redundant as we are all back with our families. Although I look forward to reading other blogs to read other people's experiences. We were so busy all the time that many things happened that I only heard about two or three days later, and I am sure that there are other stories too.

My pink shoes had a good tour, although they refused to share the limelight and would not be photographed together!!!

At the Temple of Heaven, which is enclosed with a long wall.

Demy helped the pink shoes see the panda at the Beijing Zoo. Although this shoe seemed to think it was being held up for the panda to see it!!!

At the Summer Palace. This is where the Emperor, the Empress and the concubines would go for summer. Not far from the centre of Beijing, but a cool area, with an enormous man made lake.

We walked up the hill to the top of the building, walked down the stairs and caught a boat across the lake to return.

In the Forbidden City.

On the great wall, this interestingly was the first time that the shoes (or shoe here) was photographed by other people. I wish it hadn't happened, because now the shoe thinks it is a star like the other tourists who were constantly photographed by other people.