Today was our final day in the mountains. It's amazing how quickly time goes when you are on an adventure. We woke up around 5:30 to get in line by six to visit another portion of the mountains. Luckily, we were at the front of the line. Thus, the waiting was not an issue. By 7:30, the man at the head of the line had cleared our passports and we were on our way up to the mountain top via the cable cars. The view was just majestic. The length of the ride was 25 minutes-a pretty significant amount of time and gives a clearer picture of just how high the mountains were in this particular area. One of our first adventures was to walk across a very long glass tile ledge. Basically, if you looked down at the glass, you could see the drop beneath you. Honestly, I have no idea how they managed to build a pathway such as this one. I would guess it required a lot of engineering and perhaps some lost lives to pull a project of this magnitude off! 

One of my favorite moments on this day was stopping by an area covered in red bows and ribbons. This trail was known as the "wish trail." People wrote their wishes on their red ribbons and tied them wherever they could. As you looked at this forest ahead, you were basically engulfed by these "red" dreams. It was breathtaking truly. My motto has always been "If you work hard..your dreams will come true." This was a special moment for me. 

To walk down the hill after the hours of walking took a combination of stairs as well as escalators. Another one of my favorite moments was walking down 1,000 consecutive stairs. This was one of the biggest "tourist spots" of the mountain. As the stairs were narrow and incredibly steep. We took many pictures at this particular spot. Before heading back to Changsha, we stopped at another restaurant where we I attempted to eat a spread of very spicy foods. In the evening when we arrived back in Changsha we visited a noodle shop (I thoroughly enjoyed this.) The noodles I had were thinner but also much stiffer than the pasta in the United States. It was salty and delicious. One of the other noodle options was rice noodles. They make these noodles from a big block rice that looks a lot like wax. For me, these rice noodles also taste a lot like gelatin. For that reason, I was not a big fan of the rice noodles. I definitely preferred my "andante" style noodles. 

Before heading to bed we stopped at a local bakery. Bakeries in China are also much different than the bakeries in the United States. There are cakes and cookies of course but much less sugar is added and chocolate is not really an option. This was slightly disappointing to me. However, I did enoy perusing around the cake selection and looking at the carefully made decorations.