Day trip to Heavenly lake

Today we started out at 10:30 to Heavenly Lake, which is located up in the mountains near Urumqi. We drove nearly 1 1/2 hours to get there. Once you arrive at the "park" you have to take a small bus up the twisting, turning, near-death cliff mountain road. The kind that when you look over the edge from the vehicle your life flashes before you kind of mountain road?? You know what I'm saying?? I don't like to drive these in a car.....I really didn't like it in a bus!! But obviously we survived. Once you finally get to the top of the mountain then you walk up the rest of the way....about 15 minutes, to the actual lake. It is a beautiful sight with mountains on both sides of the water and also behind. There were snow covered mountains in the distancce, and they have already had snow this fall. We then took a long winding trail to see a smaller lake and the water fall and stream that come from Heavenly lake and head down the mountain. It was very beautiful. We went down, down, down stairs to get to it, so unfortuantly we had to go up, up, up stairs to get back!! WOW Ok, the great wall was worse, but this was pretty bad also!!
I'm still coughing from my slight asthma problem that only kicks in when I'm getting too much exercise. Add in the fact that we were like 6000 feet up, breathing in cool air, I couldn't breath really well while up there. Can you CIAR girls overnight me an inhaler?? Just kidding!!
Sha Mei walked most of the way, but fell asleep on the way back in the van. At the top of the mountain they have an area for the local people....can't remember starts with a K....anyway they
sing and dance on a stage there, I'll put up a picture of that also. As we headed back down
we stopped at the resaurant and had the Nang bread...."pancake bread" it was very good, they cook it in a big stone oven and stick it to the sides of the walls of the oven. Also we had some mutton soup.that was very good also.