A weekend in Jinshan

Hello All,

So blogger is finally co-operating again and we were able to finish posting about our February vacation. Now we can get back to more recent events. Hopefully there are still some of you out there who have not given up on waiting for new posts!

When school started up again in March Destiny did not return. A new teacher, Susan, came to take her place. Susan has been in China as long as we have (since late August), but was previously teaching in Jinshan, a district of Shanghai. While she was teaching there Susan made many fabulous friends and Jen and I got the chance to go meet some of them a couple of weekends ago.

We were very lucky to get the chance to stay with Susan's friend Huan Ju (Her English name is Rosemary) and her daughter Lily. It was such a great experience. Rosemary was so generous and helpful and we had a really great weekend with her and her daughter.

This is Susan, Lily and Rosemary.

We went down to the beach where we took this boat out for a spin. As you can see here Lily was taking a turn at the wheel.

After the boat ride we walked along the beach where many shops were selling interesting things like this. Unfortunately it would be a little hard getting this dragon made of shells back to Canada in one piece.

Later we went to a park, which had a few things to do like bumper cars and this viking ship.