Busy day today. At the produce market I bought an excellent variety of fruit:

and vegetables:

The bag in front is slivered ginger. It's so nice to have someone else do the work of peeling and chopping. People here go through a lot of ginger.

For lunch Lee and I packed a picnic lunch and headed out to the MRT (the subway). The pathway through the park to the subway stop by our apartment is one of my favorite spots:

It still seems so exotic to walk through rows of palm trees. It's one of my little oases in the city.

We went north on the train, which was a first for us. We usually travel south to the center of town. But today we wanted to go back to Metropolitan Park and Lee's not quite healthy enough for the nearly 2 hours round-trip on the bikes so we hopped on the MRT.

Some of the stops are named for the local schools nearby since so many kids take the subway to school. There aren't any school buses, as far as I can tell, although some parents contract with private buses for transportation. Anyway, one of the northern stops is called Oil Refinery Elementary School. Maybe not the most scenic spots to send your little tyke.

Our destination was a few stops further along and was quite nice - clean and artsy.

We walked the short distance to the park and dined on a park bench - dumplings and baked sweet potato from the food cart plus apples and cukes from this morning's shopping. Doesn't get much better than that!

We discovered a little pond full of fish:

And I'm happy to say that this is the only snake I've seen so far:

(According to my phone's translator this sign says, "Eco series, please be careful slow.")