Gongqing Forest Park

Hi All, well already I can't view my blog again and I had a very difficult time accessing it all. It wouldn't recognize my password and somehow now there is a google account involved that I know nothing about. I also am not able to access any pictures from the Thanksgiving Dinner (which was a big hit) because Flickr has taken over for yahoo photos which is where they had been posted by the person who took the pictures. The dinner was a lot of fun and of course there was tons of food. The turkey was cooked by Brown's restaurant and delivered to my apartment. It was delicious. There was about 40 - 45 people here. It was a great evening.
Gongqing Forest Park was quite lovely and very large. It is a forest in the middle of Shanghai. Quite some years back the Shanghai municipality encouraged people to come and plant trees and this huge park developed. It is a very natural setting, not manicured with a lake where people were boating in rowboats, paddle boats and several other types of small boats. There are playgrounds for children including one with a small train, a small roller coaster and other rides. There is a glider that adults and probably teenagers can take a ride on. There were about 50 people from Yew Chung on this outing. It was only 45 minutes on a bus from here and if traffic hadn't been an issue it would probably been 30 minutes. About 10 of us from the Yew Chung campus had a great picnic together with some fabulous cheese, hummus, eggplant and a french baguette. There were also sandwiches, fruit and dessert. Unfortunately no wine. We took the pathway to the scenic panoramic view of the Huangpu River (that is the tributary of the Yangtze that runs through Shanghai. Don't laugh when you look at the picture which is the first one I'm putting on. Okay I uploaded it and from this view it is immediately above my typing. The rest of the pictures are views of the park.