Our first visit to Dandong was part of our September 2008 National Holiday week trip with Angi and Shannon. We had been in China all of 6 weeks so were still getting our feet wet. This year, Thomas and Feng-wei had planned a weekend trip with some visitors from the States but were going to cancel it because, at the last minute, the visitors couldn't come. Rick, Gail, Dianne and I offered to fill in for them and off we went. There was a snow storm on the way north so things were quite different from our first trip. Hotels We thought it funny that we would be staying in a Super 8 hotel, just like the ones in Canada and the U.S. Well, not quite. We were prepared for the necessity of handing in our
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