Found a tranquil spot in the French Quarter
Today we walked to the Shanghai Museum, and visited 3 floors of the 4 exhibit floors. Then we hiked around the area near the museum and did lunch in a Shanghai Hot Pot restaurant....we cooked our own food in broths right at the table. Fun activity that the kids liked a lot.
After lunch we ambled through a beautiful park and to the French quarter, where we ambled through Fu Xing Park, an island of tranquility in the midst of all the chaos of the city. The French Quarter is just lovely (wealthy people do manage to find nice places to live) and the park is a focal point for rest, Tai Chi classes, board game playing, and just looking. It is fully spring, and everything is green and in bloom.
Lily and I left the group and took a cab back to the hotel ( an adventure in itself, since two cab drivers now couldn't read the address on the card they give you that says,, "Take me to the Magnificent Hotel"...at (unreadable address in Chinese, apparently. We managed to get here, since we had a map with the hotel marked on it, and the cabbie finally got where we wanted to go. When we were about a block away, he took a left instead of right hand turn and we noticed that....a u-turn in the middle of a busy street is nothing here, so we got here just fine. The rest of the gourp were tyring to get to Sun Yat Sen's (sp??) house in the French Quarter when we left. It was a fun day just gawking at so many different things.
I realize that this blog is very in the moment...it'll take me weeks to organize my thoughts into something coherent...organizing photos will help to do that. Digital cameras make so many things easy...maybe too easy, because many things are captured through a lens.
Tomorrow to Beijing.
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