Using the ship's computers requires lots and lots of patience. I'll do two blogs today to avoid being on too long and loosing what I write. Other than this frustrating computer experience, everything is going well. Our English friends ended up being rather fun, but left the ship yesterday in Beijing. One, was a single lady who had the hots for the Italian captain, especially his little bum. This she described with her hands which was pretty funny.
A couple of days ago we were in Dalian, China. I went on a tour and saw an absolutely beautiful city. It is very European, somewhat like Paris. We stopped at some of the parks (someone said 45% of the city is parks). These parks are gigantic and beautiful. It was lightly raining and cloudy which was too bad because in the sunshine, I think they would have been stunning. One park, I think Xinghau, has a huge cement blank book with 3000 footsteps in brass leading up to it. They used actual people from Dalian to make the footprints and arranged them by age so the oldest were nearly 100 all the way to infants and then blank. The point is that life is an open book and no one knows what the future will bring. This is all very gigantic and if you walk on the book you get a beautiful view of the China Sea. I'm not sure I explained this very well, but maybe you can google it if you are interested. It was difficult to get photos because of the size. We also drove along the coast where people can walk along a beautiful path with pretty planting and great views of the coast. We walked on the Friendship Bridge, went to Tiger Beach where we saw tigers (carved), saw a gondola ride that looked really scary as it bounced in the wind, etc. Everywhere we went we saw more beautiful buildings. This is just a fabulous city. Brian has sworn off China, but decided to take a shuttle into town so he did make a quick loop and got to see some of how beautiful it is.
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