My brother and I went with our uncle to the Great Wall of China in the morning. We went there last time with our family, but I didn't really take any pictures, and I can't really remember it much anymore. The drive there took around an hour, and we arrived at the base of a small mountain away from the wall.

After buying tickets, we took a cable car to the top. The cable car kept stopping, and we thought there was something wrong with it, until we saw a sticker on the window that said it was a "3 time fast, 2 time slow" cable car, which explained the stopping and going. It was pretty windy once we got up to the wall, it was pretty windy, so I had to take my hat of to keep it from flying down the mountain. Not long after we walked a few steps on the wall, did the vendors there start offering us random products and sourveniers. We gave in to one of the ladies and bought two keychains with pictures of my brother and I on the wall.

Climbing the wall was very tiring, and some places were extremely steep. The downhill parts were okay, but not as easy and relaxing as one might think. Many of the downhill sections had steps, so you had to be careful and pay attention to prevent any ankle rolling. All of us tripped a few times. Once we travelled along the wall to the top of a different mountain, we were exhausted, and decided to go home.

To get down the mountain, we took a different form of transportation. It was called sliding cars, and we strapped in and rolled down a track to the base of the mountain, while taking in a ton of scenery along the way. At the bottom, we passed through a little bear park and some more vendors. Then we discovered the driver couldn't get to where we are, and we needed to walk a little up the hill. Finally we found our ride and then ate lunch at a noodle place close by.

When we got back, we sat around in my aunts apartment for a while, and then I went and slept for an hour in the hotel room. My aunt and cousin then came and picked my brother and I up to go shopping in a mall. We didn't need anything, so we just followed them around while they browsed. There were shirts by Armani and Versache that were one to two hundred american dollars. After walking on all the various levels, we called for the driver and left. On the way back, we went to go eat at a Pizza Hut. My brother and I still weren't adjusted to the time change, so we were super sleepy. We fell asleep during the ride, and then when we got there and I tried to wake Isaac up, he wouldn't wake up, so we had to drag him inside. Every time we got him awake a tiny bit, he was grumpy, looked around, and then fell asleep again. After eating pizza, spagetti, coffee, and fruit, we went back to the apartment. We then got ready and went to the pool. It was an olympic sized swimming pool, with only lanes.

I had no idea the lanes in olympic sized pools were that long. I couldn't swim from one side to the other. After going back and forth two or three times, I crawled out of the pool tired to death. I felt like passing out and throwing up, and could barely move for a while. We walked back to the apartment, and a driver drove us back to the hotel. My brother slept in my parents room, so I had a hotel room all to myself. It felt good sleeping after walking on the great wall, walking in a mall, and swimming.