Perhaps it’s because I am 70 years old at heart, but I have had a bucket list since a young age. Perhaps I am even older than 70, because most of it centers around ancient sites (or maybe I have been reincarnated a lot). I have gotten a good start at this in the last five years: Stonehenge, Coliseum, Parthenon, Great Pyramid. Most recently, I went to one of the most amazing of my bucket list locations: The Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City.
Complete with dorky touristy panda hats, we explored these ancient sights (sorry: I had to have a shot with these hats- they are so cool, right? I started making the analysts at work wear the hat when they were bad. I call it the "panda hat of shame").
The Forbidden City is just across from the stark Tiannamen Square. I really appreciated the city for its use of red and forbidden-ness. I always like going places where I am not supposed to be (rooms with "Do Not Enter" on them, my sister's bedroom, etc.).
Someday I want a red house with my giant picture on the front.
Token artistic shot
The Great Wall: it was majestic. There are actually three different “Great Walls” in the section I visited; in case the Mongols got over one, there were another two to go. It stretches infinitely in each direction, zig-zagging like a giant rocky snake through the country side. I could almost see the Mongols trying to climb it, with no one but Mulan to stop them. Or me. Hi-yah!
Look it how tall it is...or how short I am.
Let me show you how snakelike I can be....
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