I've decided to post in this blog once in a while on miscellaneous topics because sometimes former students in China want to find out what I'm doing and more than 1/2 dozen other people share my name (Charles Ditzler). You can also find my blog entries from 2006 at http://xizhimen.livejournal.com.
While I was walking to the main part of the Sunday parade route, I came across this giant pumpkin contest, but I didn't stick around to find out about the winner.