It was a beautiful Sunday in Shanghai. After enjoying Jim’s crepes for breakfast, we went to enjoy the sunshine at Century Park. Century Park (世纪公园) is the largest park in the City of Shanghai. The Park’s landscaping combines British, Japanese, and Chinese gardening styles. Entrance to the park costs 10rmb ($1.50), except for old people and short people…Elle, Grandpa & Grandma were all free.

We started by renting a “bicycle built for four”. Elle and Grandpa were put in the middle to make it work for six people. It was fun peddling through the Park.

We past the boat rentals and pulled over. Since we arrived in Shanghai, the girls have wanted to rent a boat. We parked and locked our “bicycle built for four”. The girls had fun driving our boat. Due to the Chinese holiday and many boaters, we got the last boat available. It had a bit of steering problems, but the bad steering made it more fun. I should have taken a photo of the boat as it was in sad shape.

After our hour on the water, we returned the boat and began to peddle around the park. I couldn’t resist the flower garden photo for the girls.

We peddled over to the rides, of course. I was pleasantly surprised how uncrowded the rides were on this Sunday afternoon. The girls had the most fun in the bumper cars.

It was time to peddle back through the park to return our bicycle. It was a fun afternoon in Century Park.

On the way home, we were able to get a classic Shanghai photo. You see this all over the City, but most times you don’t have a camera or you can’t get it out fast enough.

We grabbed a quick dinner at home prior to our next adventure. Grandpa wanted to do the river cruise boat on the Huangpu River. He has been sitting on the deck watching the boats. Mr. Nie drove over to Puxi to get our tickets while we had dinner. He rushed us along to get us to the boat dock one hour prior to departure – which the time was perfect to be close to the front of the line. We were able to go to the top to get a table. Of course, the table did cost an extra 50rmb ($7.50) per person, but included a drink. The tickets were 100rmb ($15) per person. It was worth the extra 50rmb to have the space to enjoy the river cruise.

The Huangpu River (黄浦江), literally “Yellow Bank River” is a 97km-long river in China flowing through Shanghai. Huangpu River is the largest river in Shanghai. It is an average of 400 meters wide and 9 meters deep. It divides the city into two regions: Pudong (East) and Puxi (West).