Day 27

7.18.09

Today we headed off at 8:30am for the Three Gorges Dam. I found out that Jerry (the head of TA’s helping at the hotel) is going to be singing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” at the 2^nd Hootenanny this coming Thursday. The bus ride took 5 hours and the Dam was gorgeous!!! There were 3 different stops we made, the first to a spot far away and high up from the Dam, a very good view, and we also saw a model of the Three Gorges Dam there. Then we went to a closer view of it, and after that, to a modern-art park very close to the water- a lot of people stayed on the bus but as small as it was it was cute, and worth the 30 minutes of walking around. Very long day=very tired people. The hotel is wonderfully quiet, and Grandma and some of her friends are downstairs enjoying the fruits of their labor (it took Grandma 20 minutes to get the point across to the bartenders/hostesses what the group wanted for drinks. Go her!) A long day deserves much rest.