Chongqing City Life (part 5)

The women here in China are often very, very stylishly dressed.  Here are a couple of photos:

Both of these young women are wearing real furs.

Hiking around this "city of mountains" is a common weekend activity.  One Sunday, we went hiking with Li Senlin and his wife....along with Qing and Melody.   

Li Senlin had also spent one year teaching in the Battle Ground  School District in Washington state, back in 1995.  He is now a well-respected, senior teacher at our school here in Chongqing.

Senlin is a very special person to Barbara and John Rogers of Amboy, WA.

Senlin and his wife treated us to a wonderful meal, and then to a visit to our third Chongqing Hot Spring Resort.

Speaking of "Amboy", we saw this sign on a building one day! 

 We've seen plenty of Chinese kids enjoying YoYo's.   

So, we bought our grandsons, Maverick, Devlin, and Jaxson, yoyo's for Christmas 2010.  (Hope they make it to the States in time!)

Click here to see a neighborhood kid do great yoyo tricks.

A view of the traffic on the street in front of our apartment.......This photo was taken from the cross-over walkway.  Here in China, many times there are walkways over or under the streets, for safety.  

No, everything in China is not beautiful.  But this is functional, anyway.  From our building, we can see the roof-top of the building next door, where these women are sorting garbage, apparently looking for recyclables.  We're glad to know that recycling happens here, anyway!!