Summer Palace

Bare with me...I used an app to write my posts and it lost all my content somewhere between ipad and Blogger.  Boo.  So, for now, I will post some pictures.  Thoughts later.  In short, wow.

After our grueling hike and awe inspiring morning at the Great Wall, we took a long drive to the Summer Palace.   We arrived to a mingling of Beijing "fog" and a fine misty rain.  It was cooling after the morning heat of the Great Wall and made for scenes saturated in brilliant deep colors and set off with a misty film.