Delicate Blown Glass Flowers
The air was cold and crisp and the sky was a brilliant blue when Bill called to ask we wanted to go out to the Mutianyu with him, the mountainas, Great Wall Mutianyu, the School House and teahouse, where we had been twice before with him, last year. Of course we did. We were very grateful. Could Janice and Sophia come too? Yes, but they were at the market and would have to hurry to get back in time. I really like Mutianyu, for the same reason Bill does, I imagine. There is really good western food at the restaurant and the good noodles at the teahouse, and really interesting architectural work and restoration being done there, plus opportunities and possibilities for someone with some money…not me. But the immediate interest is the Schoolhouse which features the glass blowing studio where the beautiful glass is made. See: http://www.theschoolhouseatmutianyu.com/. There is also an art initiative and classrooms, so I imagine art classes as well. This is where we first saw the singing bowls…which are amazing. If you strike the rim of a bowl with a padded rod, in a fashion similar to the way you’d strike a tuning fork, and continue to run the rod around the rim of the bowl, the sound becomes progressively louder and louder until finally you must stop because it is too loud to endure. I had never seen or anything like it before.
Last year we enjoyed the donkey in the moat; this year we were even more excited by thesight of a camel going by as we got out of the car. Mutianyu was an official Olympics tourist site. Here it isdecorated for Christmas. We drank hot cocoa in the café and decorated placemates with Craypas.
Sophia Kim and Janice Aulicino
Janice, Sophi, and Dave and Singing Bowls
Glass Blowing Artist gives demonstrations
Above: Examples of Beautiful Glass for sale
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