DAY 5 - SATURDAY 2 MAY 2009

8343 - Scott teaching us Chinese history
8351 - jade-worker
8360 - jade panther
8366 - learning about jade
8371 - jade Buddha... ¥58,000 ($8,500)
8372 - small jade ship... ¥45,000 ($6,600)
8378 - large jade ship... ¥680,000 ($99,750)
8384 - trying on jade jewelry
8388 - jade dragon... ¥50,000 ($7,350)
8392 - Sean looking at jewelry
8399 - jade "happiness balls"... ¥640 ($94)
8401 - globes... ¥36,800 ($5,400)
8405 - Chinese pictography lesson with Scott
8415 - Great Wall... the "hard" path
8419 - Great Wall... the "easy" path
8426 - flowers at Great Wall
8429 - hard path
8431 - "Engrish" signage
8438 - climbing
8442 - Great Wall stairs
8444 - Chinese grafitti
8449 - Josh and Katina
8465 - Alyssa, Sammi, and Katina
8472 - view from ~700 steps up
8475 - me ~700 steps up the Great Wall
8487 - some HCC-ers coming back down already
8488 - Amy ~1150 steps up
8489 - Sean at tower
8492 - still climbing... getting harder...
8494 - AT THE TOP!  ~1800 steps
8498 - stereotypical American tourists
8501 - Ben and the apple
8503 - Chad, Ted, and me at the top
8505 - view from the top
8508 - Katina looking out
8509 - another view
8513 - manly men; true heroes
8514 - Carly and I
8515 - a long way back down
8523 - HCC-ers on the tower
8526 - Ted and Evan "on top of the world"
8532 - legs getting very tired by this point
8535 - holding steady
8540 - international train passing by Great Wall
8543 - we have conquered this feat
8545 - Sam and Sean, proud of their accomplishments
8550 - Yulong Friendship Shop (flea market)
8555 - lunch
8557 - WONDERFUL Kung Pao!
8560 - Hallie and Evan, true Panthers... ¥198,000 ($28,000)
8571 - having fun in the back of the bus
8575 - our hotel, the Great Wall Sheraton Beijing
8579 - CCTV building, nicknamed "big shorts"
8590 - Silk Street market
8591 - receiving final advice from Scott
8594 - scoping out bargains
8601 - "pregnant" with fortune?
8607 - the girls finding out how they did at bargaining
8616 - Peking Duck being prepared at dinner
8620 - Peking Duck
8625 - dinner conversation
8630 - having a good time
8634 - one big happy family
8638 - showing off their purchases

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