We took a retreat to Lijiang this past weekend. We stayed in a really nice five room villa. We visited old town Lijiang, with its pretty little Chinese lanterns, smooth traffic worn streets, and quaint little shops.
We enjoyed the western food available, because we can't get it in our town. We also enjoyed the humorous signs that had 
poorly translated into very silly sayings. Imagine putting signs that said this up in America... :) This Ice cream has a very interesting name that I will not comment on... just read it. I found a very interesting hat that made me look like Raggedy Ann. (left it for someone else to buy) Some of our friend road little ponies around the town.
We also took a bus ride to Tiger Leaping Gorge.
If you look
carefully in the picture of the river you can see a tiger on the side of the gorge. The legend says that a mighty tiger jumped across this gorge only touching the tip of the cube shaped rock in the middle of the river. One sign proudly boasted that this is MUCH bigger then the USA's Grand Canyon. ;) Many signs warned that rocks often fall, people die every year hiking it. It was pretty cool. We flew home. Now we are looking forward to a week filled with parties, up until we leave. I don't think I will have time to post again, Merry Christmas!!!!! I look forward to seeing you soon.
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