Trying Something New

The pictures above were transferred from my scanner to the computer and it was darned difficult for me to master. I'd just about given up when my "computer person", Anna, knocked on the door for a visit. She helped lead me through the process and here is the result.

Dennis and I went to China on business in 1989 and it turned out to be the most memorable trip I've ever taken in my life. It was a time when American style commercialism was just beginning to creep back in the door and we were there to see it seeded. I remember looking across Tiananmen Square and seeing on the far edge the new KFC (opened 1987) looking very out of place. When we walked on the Great Wall of China, there was a little refreshment stand part way along where Coke was being sold, too. Those were early days for the new regime.

The first picture shown is Dennis sitting astride a tethered camel on a little outcropping of land beside the great wall. Just behind the camel is a sheer drop down a cliff of possibly 1000 feet, maybe more. Can you imagine if the camel had shied away from the photographer?

The second picture is of Dennis being fined the equivalent of $3 for smoking on the great wall. I took this picture after peering through the camera lens and being shocked to see my husband standing amidst soldiers with rifles drawn while crowds of Chinese tourists screamed at the soldiers in anger. The young girl on the right was our interpreter and she had been jumping up and down in rage that soldiers would fine a Canadian tourist who had no idea he was breaking a law when he lit up his cigarette.

I just found these pictures tucked away in my computer desk and thought it would be interesting to show them on the blog.

Some of the moments in my life have been spectacular and this was one of them.