Reading and discussingJOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGPART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINSAlthough it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in T Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? That's what we looked like! Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked Wang Wei rode in front of me as She is very reliable and I knew I didn't need to encourage To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the We seemed to be able to see for At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through Then we began going down the It was great fun especially as it gradually became much In the valleys colorful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green At this point we had to change our caps, coats, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and In the early evening we always stop to make We put up our tent and then we After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew It was so There was almost no wind-only the flames of our fire for As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join We can hardly wait to see them!