I may have to amend my post from a couple days ago. The air has been wonderfully clean but the temperature has gotten high and it just doesn't cool off. The morning I posted about enjoying the hot weather the a/c died at school and wasn't fixed until 9:00. By then the thermometer in my room was reading 86 degrees, which isn't bad when you're sitting on the beach with the breeze in your face. It's not so nice with just the fans going and a room full of middle schoolers. Okay, in my case it wasn't a room full - my classes are pretty small - but Lee's room was full and everyone was pretty miserable. This heat is tolerable when you've got a/c.

But the weekends are made for relaxing and you've got to do that outside, in my opinion. So Lee and I ignored the thermometer and went for a bike ride Saturday morning. We went to the end of Cijin Island then skirted the edge of the harbor and went south of downtown to the Dream Mall. We'd been meaning to take a ride on the ferris wheel on the roof and the weather was perfect for seeing the city. We arrived at the mall a little after 10 am, and discovered the stores don't open until 11:00. On a Saturday! Crazy. As it turned out, the security guards opened the doors at 10:30 so we didn't have to wait long to get into the cooled air inside, then promptly took the elevator up to the roof. The stores don't open until 11:00 but the ferris wheel was ready for passengers.

I swallowed my fear of heights and enjoyed the view. Fortunately the ride was slow and smooth. Here are the pix.