"That is a great wall."

I thought Richard Nixon's comment on seeing the Great Wall of China was appropriate for the first post on this mini-blog I've started to detail this trip.

Shannon and I are in China for this whole week (two Princetonians visiting the country, which is where the blog gets its name), so I thought I'd use a blog to talk about what we see, post a few pictures, and give people a chance to comment back on our experience.

Today, our first real day on the ground after getting in late last night, we got out of the city and walked the south side of the Badaling section of the Great Wall. The pictures of are the two of us on the Wall - I think they give a pretty good idea of the perspective and overwhelming size of where we were.

It sort of goes without saying that the Wall was impressive. What I was more surprised by was the number of people who wanted to have their pictures taken with Shannon and me. I guess it makes sense since redheads are rare over here (either that or there are more Terp fans here than I thought).

More tomorrow - I think we're exploring the city itself, so I'm sure we'll have some good stories.