1k names peace cranes better than nicotine

This is how she coped with quitting smoking:

Yes, origami. I know, weird, but it really worked. I am a project oriented person so I needed to channel this origami folding into something greater so I found that I could fold origami but
I decided that I will make 1000 cranes for the peace monument in Hiroshima, Japan. It was all the inspiration I needed to continue now that I had an end result to shoot for.
I have completed over 400 cranes and I have was pretty proud of that. However, I recently found out that they accept the cranes year round but only drape the monument in August for the anniversary of the atom bomb.This means I need to get busy!

risk-reward

"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having." ~ V

Wonders

What ARE the new wonders of the world...? Vote here.
The old ones were:

The Temple of Artemis
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Lighthouse at Alexandria
The Pyramids at Giza
The Statue of Zeus


Those up for consideration:


The Acropolis
Alhambra
Angkor
Chichen Itzá
Christ Redeemer
The Colosseum
Easter Island
Eiffel Tower
Great Wall of China
Hagia Sophia
Kiyomizu Temple
Kremlin
Machu Picchu
Neuschwanstein Castle
Petra
Pyramids of Giza (an Honorary New7Wonders Candidate)
Statue of Liberty
Stonehenge
Sydney Opera House
Taj Mahal
Timbuktu


I went with:

Taj Mahal (easiest pick of the bunch)
Angkor (The temples spread out over 40 miles in Cambodia)
Chichen Itzá (last of the Mayan temples)
Great Wall of China (tremendous, seen from space)
Petra (a 9,000 year-old fortress city carved into a canyon)
Stonehenge (consider the engineering of moving tons of rock thousands of years before the birth of Christ)
The Colosseum (just edging out the Acropolis because, hello, Elgin Marbles.)




"Machu Pichu ain't shit people ..."