We arrived last night and in the dark, we immediately noticed all the electric bikes. Everyone is riding them everywhere - whole new traffic pattern. This morning we got up and went to the central hill in the city. These limestone hills just pop up throughout the city with houses and shops built up against them. We climbed up Decai Hill and and had a wonderful view of the city and rivers. At the bottom is a university and art school where the old royal compound used to be. The girls had a teacher show them how to make the landscape paintings so famous in Guilin. Guohua and Anna really enjoyed that despite the heat. We then went outside the city to the Yao Mountain - the highest in the area that allowed us a 360 view. We took cable cars up and then there was a ‘sled’ we took down that rode a slide. They wouldn’t let us go too fast though - I think the tour guide really wanted us to take the cable car down and was a little worried about danger so the operator went first. That was fine with Guohua - she was nervous when I started going fast that I would hit her. But she had a wonderful time.
She had a lot more questions about what she was seeing too. I think she seems more comfortable and more and more able to enjoy herself. She is really starting to try a little more English and tonight we had fun playing cards all together. She's been much more shy with Bob keeping him at a distance, but tonight she was even laughing and giggling with him.
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