Daming Mountain is about a 3 hour bus ride (if the driver doesn’t take the wrong exit- but more on that later) south-west of Hangzhou city but still within Hangzhou boundary.
Side Note: I haven’t quite figured out how they can figure the population of a city when the boundaries of it are the size of one of our counties, and within those boundaries are many little towns/cities (with populations bigger than 200,000).
Anyway, back on subject… Daming Mountain which is pronounced like DOMing Mountain but should be pronounced like Damning because I sure d^&* well felt my age and there sure were a lot of d^%$ steps up to the peak. To relieve your suspense I made it 7/8 of the way – that last little hill to get to the top was not worth my huffing and puffing so I gave the kids a break and me a much bigger break and sat for about 15 minutes while they finished the rest and took the obligatory photos at the top.
We got to the mountainous area about 4 pm Saturday afternoon and checked into our little hotel. We walked around the area ate the local food for dinner and I taught 5 of the girls how to play Yahtzee. I wish I had thought to bring a Twister game with me. Somebody remind me to pick up one when I am home in August for vacation. This age group would be perfect for it. Plus they have all seen it played on the Friends TV series, which is very popular over here.
More on Daming Mountain in the next blog – but here are the photos of the trip I took
