Pictures from Guilin

On Sunday we took the Li River Cruise (aka Squatty Potty Titanic). It would have been incredibly beautiful, but it was so foggy, hazy, smoggy(?) we really could not see the beautiful mountains as clearly as I had hoped. But as you can see from these pictures, it was still quite a sight. The entire river was lined with these wonderful peaks. And all along the river banks you would see farmers in the fields with their water buffalo, or children swimming (ugh!!!) in the water. I was also fascinated by the people who were on their flat boats (or rafts?). And yes, I didn't have the squatty potty disaster until the very end of the cruise....when we were getting ready to dock. So at least we got to enjoy the whole cruise. Including some food that I have no idea what it was, but we pretty much ate it and it was pretty good. AND the best part is that we lived thru it! And we're not sick from it. But stay tuned....who knows what we could get sick from! We ate lunch today at the Cow and Bridge Restaurant (weird name for a Thai Restaurant). It was good, but I still think I prefer Busaba's or Bangkok Thai back home. And Anna prefers green tea and on the airplane today she guzzled chrsyantemum tea (ewww). She was very happy with the cruise cuisine (she said "finally! Something decent to eat and I can understand these normal people insead of these weird parents who don't understand me....")

Look at these amazing mountains!

Natalie finally found the "headless water buffalo" from Big Bird in China movie!!! A clue!

More cool mountains

They don't like each other, do they?? She loves her daddy! Yay!

This picture of the waterfall at the hotel our first evening does not do it justice. It is the coolest thing! At 8:30 each evening, they put on a show which includes the whole side of the building turning into a huge waterfall. VERY cool indeed.
The Chinese are very hard workers....I really admire their stamina.