Forest park fun!!!

me and timon headed to gongqing forest park.

what we expected was little trees and some kiddie rides.

What we found was little trees and awesome adult sized rides!

All the many different trees are all about 30 ft tall, and I imagine it will be really cool in 20+ years when they become more mature. For now, brides and grooms have over run the forest to take their romantic couple pictures amoungst the trees, traintracks, and greenery of the park. Activities included horse backriding, row boating, "angling", paint balling,and BBQ(!). All the rides had totally english translated names like "Acentric turntable" "bungy rope/flying bodies", "Boat in the torrents" etc. We were searching fro a bungy cord which was next to the ascentric turntable, but, after trotting back and forth, we realized it just might be the flying bodies chairs on ropes thing. but we rode the ascentric turntable, and being the only ones it was nice and private. Its like being strapped in a zoe-trope and spun around and at an angle, so the centripical force holds you in, even when your vertical and it looks like you should be falling down! That was actually a really peaceful , lulling ride.

Their roller coaster was pretty rad, witha few loopdy loops and twists going over the pond. I was screaming the whole time!

We rented tandem bikes and it was quickyl established that kristina should not drive the bike. At all. This was a great way to get to the farther corners of the park, where it was just around the lake, gazebos and foot paths and peacefulness- and nearly running over a frog!

It was a long metro ride out, bout an hr and a half from line 2 to the end of line 8, up north. Then we cabbed to the park, bought a kite, and look forward to coming here again! (I want to do the paintball)


Friday: hit the urban planning museum, and a french dinner in taicang lu with a friend. Finished off the day with george clooney in "Brother, where art thou?"

hoo I'm tired!