Just another Sunday

Like most things in Shanghai, our Sunday plans revovled around food...in this case lunch. The Ambrose clan climbed aboard our city bicycles (Abi in her flashy pink bunny helmet) and cycled down the road to Boxing Cat Brewery, one of our weekend brunch favorites.



After lunch, during which Abi showed us exactly how much her cousin Michael's influence re food and eating has finally taken effect by eating most of Jason's waffles, we went for a walk. BCB is in a new development of old mansion houses called Sinan Mansions. So there are some nice plaza areas with fountains and the random sculpture. All of which attract the ubiquitous chinese students of photography who are all obsessed with photographing poor Abs.





Abi really couldn't care less that the guy beside her is snapping away with his camera. At least he was nice enough to ask first, and we have long given up on trying to run them all off.

Abi loves splashing in the fountain here and is all but inside of one, except for Jason holding onto her.

As we take a short hop across the road to visit Fuxing Park, Abi decides to take a breather in an unfortunate spot. The cart behind her is being loaded up with recycling. This is the way most recycling is done in China.

'what's wrong with right here? I'm tired!'

A short hop across the road and we visit Fuxing Park where Abi can run around a bit in real grass, of which there is a real shortage in Shanghai. She found a kid with a bubble machine and took off. Not much longer and the running around results in Abi having a face the color of a tomato, so we hauled our fair-skinned kid home out of the sweltering heat for a nap.

As we leave, we watch the recycling couple ride off down the street. These bike carts have small electric motors (usually) and can be piled as high as you can imagine...actually probably higher. They have to be seen to be believed.

And in answer to your question...yes, the lady is riding on top of all the stuff.