The Li River

We had so much fun going down the Li River just outside of Guilin. As we saw beautiful mountains we took lot of pictures of the wonderful scenery. Sue, our personal guide in Guilin, pointed out many different land marks in China along the river. The Chinese have great imaginations because they are always looking for some other meaning of a simple object. They have a mountain with nine horses, painted it seems, on the mountain. Really it is the coloring of the lime stone rock. All the mountains are limestone. They say that Guilin was underwater for some time, and all the mountains were under water. Hard to believe when you see how large the mountains are. There is also a rock that is called something like "The Yearning for Husband Rock." The rock is supposed to look like a woman with a baby on her back and it seems that she is looking for her husband. I did not get it at all. All the rocks had some different colorings in the limestone. I could not see the nine horses either. Oh well.
We met this very nice Indian family on the plane to Guilin. There father sat next to mine and they got to talk to each other. They have a daughter around my age and a son. We saw them on the cruise along the Li River. We got to travel together. We got go down to the water and under the bridge. the rock underneath was very slippery. The little boy almost fell in. I was standing next to him so I immediately grabbed him. Of course it gave everyone a scare because people say that millions of people die in the Li River each year. If he did fall in, I might have gone in after him because the water was so nice and cool, so inviting.
By the end of the day I was ready to swim. The out door pool is wonderful. Mom and I went down and played Marco Polo. Of course my mom cheated like always when she plays Marco Polo. She gets frustrated when she cannot find me. Then we played dunk the other person in the water were I lost. Then suddenly, there was a loud burst of thunder. Then the rain came down in torrents. Sheets and sheets. It all happened so quickly. Soon the life guard said that we had to get out of the pool. I was very dissapointed because I am not going to get a lot of time to swim because the pool opens pretty late. As soon as we got to our the rain stopped and we went back down stairs. I was still very cranky about having to leave the pool for five minutes. That is all for now!