October 18, 2011 Yangtze

We slept mostly through the night.  At around 4 am there was some shuddering that felt like John was riding his bike in his dreams.  Cheri poked him.  The motion kept on...cheri poked him again.  John said, " it's the boat "!  So Cheri hopped out of bed and looked out the window...indeed we were still cruising.

The music began at 7 am...a gentle wake up call.  We thought , oh boy let's get showers, breakfast and get up on the top deck to shoot the landscape.  Wrong...we had cruised during the night so were arriving at port after breakfast.  Bummer!  It was pretty foggy, but looked like the sun might poke out.  So we retreated to the 4th floor deck and began to work on pictures, read the paper and contemplate a massage!

So as always we made the best of things and relaxed and sorted images!!  Bonus!

Unfortunately, Lunch was mostly American food.  After lunch we were off to the Snow Jade Caves.  They say they are the most amazing caves in China.  For sure they we're pretty spectacular!  John brought his 100-400 mm lens and 580ex flash;  what a great combo for taking stalagmite shots!

The scenery was beautiful on the way to and from the caves. The hills are huge and long. The kids walk them everyday to and from school.  How they do it, I will never know!

We got back to the ship in time to clean up before the Caption's reception.