Traffic!!!

After leaving the Great Wall, we had lunch and went to the Summer Palace. It was very beautiful but would have helped if we had done our homework. It would have been much more interesting if we knew anything about it, but we didn't. And still don't. Between the heat, humidity, CROWDS, insomnia and post Wall exhaustion, I just wanted to get back to our hotel room. But, we pushed our way through the Palace and now we can say we've seen it. On the ride back, we sat in a ton of traffic. Like 5:00 on a Friday in Atlanta traffic. We asked why it was so busy and found out that each car is allowed to drive 3 days per work week (determined by your liscence plate number). This is to control the mass amounts of traffic on workdays. On weekends, however, anyone can drive anywhere so it is always very busy on Saturdays and Sundays. Interesting... It was on this ride back to our hotel when David asked me, "are you ready to meet your daughter?"!! :) Oh yes, I'm ready! Only two more "sleeps"! We meet Junie on Monday!!!!!!!!!! Tomorrow, we take a 2:00 flight to Guangzhou and check into the Garden Hotel which will be our home away from home for the next 2 weeks. More tomorrow from Guangzhou.