I went for a walk to Stone Lake in the south of the city. I went with Lydia and we decided to meet at Lindun Lu Station but after I told her I had arrived she said that she had told me the wrong station and so I jumped on the metro and travelled the two stops to meet her.

We then used the metro to make our way to Stone Lake and then we would change to a bus for the rest of the journey. After a few minutes on the train I realised that we were going to wrong way, I haven’t done that in a long time.

We arrived at Stone Lake and then headed to the small garden behind where you can go and see the gold Buddha at the top of the hill. The park was not really busy and it was good to get out in the fresh air.

I think this Buddha looks really happy and very fat and he does have a good view of the lake.

We didn’t stay to long because by the time we got there we were both getting hungry and there was no place to get anything to eat. A couple of years ago there was a market and you could buy snacks but it’s long gone.

So we decided to head to the spicy Chongching restaurant and had the numbing spicy beef noodles. After we ate it was around 3pm and so we headed home and then it was time for coffee and of course all was well until the poor crayfish were mutilated and stripped of their appendiges by Sissi’s mother, but that is the other story from today.