Angkor Wat

Today we saw 1/7th of the world's wonder. Wait, that's not quite right.  Today we saw one of the seven wonders of the world.  Yeah, that sounds more like it.  Really, we did.  That's what the Chinese tourist told us before saying we should go to China and see one of the other wonders: the Great Wall.

Today I also told Anson that ants are needed for peony blooms to open (after we saw some ants on a bird of paradise flower).  He told me that I have already told him that no less than 5 and no more than 10 times (his words, not mine, and really he held up one hand then both hands) in the 9 years we've known each other.  To which I frustratedly exclaimed that I have no new tidbits of trivia to share with him.  We decided that that was OK, that instead of teaching each other new trivia, we would just have to learn new things together.  Like what the other 5 wonders of the world are, for example.

So we looked it up and guess what?  Angkor Wat isn't even one of them.  There are no fewer than 5 and no more than 10 distinct lists of the 7 wonders of the world and Angkor Wat isn't on any of them.  And guess what else?  Peonies don't really need ants to bloom - the ants just like the nectar that's on the flowers.

So, here's to learning new things!

And if you were wondering, the 7 wonders of the ancient world are:
1. Great Pyramid of Giza
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
5. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
6. Colossus of Rhodes
7. Lighthouse of Alexandria
(The Great Wall of China is on a list from more recent eras.  Which goes to show that we probably shouldn't be trying to number the wonders of the world. Particularly not with a list that ends in such a small number.)