I am proud to say that we are the first in our family to climb the Great Wall of China. It appears that Braeden and I have developed a competitive travel agenda with our parents. Back in 2007, it almost broke my dad’s heart that he didn’t get to walk on the Great Wall. Thanks to our mom’s incessant bragging about her recent trip to South America all I can say is Ha! We beat you to it! Sorry dad, but you married her!
All joking aside, it was a spectacular experience. A lot more of a tourist attraction then I expected. There were two chairlifts to take visitors up to the wall, as well as a toboggan course to ride down. We opted to hike up to the Wall because we are cheap and able bodied. Turned out to be harder than we expected: twenty straight minutes of narrow stairs! However, once we reached the top of our hike all pain went away… we were on the freaking Great Wall of China! Looking at it now, I can barely even believe we did it. It is so surreal just thinking about the history of the structure. We never had a bad view and no matter which way we looked we could see the wall stretching on and on. We just had to have a celebratory beer… even if it was only 10 in the morning! I’mending it on that; the pictures can speak for themselves. Cheers. 
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