On October 1st China celebrates its National Holiday (like July 4th in the States). The kids were happy to have a week off of school. Some teachers invited us to a camp out on the Great Wall. Fortunately, the weather that week was very nice. However, the night time air got a little chilly. We arrived on the Wall around 5:30PM, just in time to scope out a guard tower roof to camp on and get our sleeping bags layed out before the sun set.

Family picture before the sun went down

Ms. Ackerman was smart to bring a candle, which became our only light after darkness came. We had a candle-light picnic dinner of Korean kimbap and tortilla sandwich rolls. The kids went for a night time walk with their flashlights, then came back and told stories around the “candle”.  We settled down to try to sleep. The ground was rock and very hard and the night air chilly.  I brought a yoga mat to put my sleeping bag on.

Waking up

From a distance

Early morning foggy picture

Group shot with all our friends

Girls in their photo shoot in the distance

Village pictures on our way back home