On sunday, I ventured out around 10am and found that many people were arriving on the train and the streets were already blocked off. I wandered around a bit and took some pictures of the wooden shrines and some very cute children. Later I met up with Jacq and we watched the start of the parade and then went wandering through the food stalls that were set up along the road (festival food is, of course, very expensive but I love candy strawberries, like candy apples but better!). The parade is basically alot of people, young and old, pulling these wooden shrines on wheels which are highly decorated with carvings and carry other people inside, playing drums and flutes, as well as 4 or 5 on top to blow whistles and pump up the croud. There are about 12 of them, some are hundreds of years old. It's alot of fun and at night they put lanterns all over them and the marchers hold paper lanterns and do it all again. All in all it was a pretty good weekend, even if Lorenzo couldn't make it up. He'll be up here next weekend, barring unforseen circumstances, and that will be good too. Maybe we'll bo to Nikko...haven't discussed it yet.
Fall festival...
On sunday, I ventured out around 10am and found that many people were arriving on the train and the streets were already blocked off. I wandered around a bit and took some pictures of the wooden shrines and some very cute children. Later I met up with Jacq and we watched the start of the parade and then went wandering through the food stalls that were set up along the road (festival food is, of course, very expensive but I love candy strawberries, like candy apples but better!). The parade is basically alot of people, young and old, pulling these wooden shrines on wheels which are highly decorated with carvings and carry other people inside, playing drums and flutes, as well as 4 or 5 on top to blow whistles and pump up the croud. There are about 12 of them, some are hundreds of years old. It's alot of fun and at night they put lanterns all over them and the marchers hold paper lanterns and do it all again. All in all it was a pretty good weekend, even if Lorenzo couldn't make it up. He'll be up here next weekend, barring unforseen circumstances, and that will be good too. Maybe we'll bo to Nikko...haven't discussed it yet.
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Book!
It came!!!! Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
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long job this
the mold is done! now it just has to cure. and maybe I need to fill in a couple air bubble holes. Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
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achievements!
There was nearly epic shopping today. I have replaced the surge protector for my computer (not by choice. the 'I'm broken' alarm went off last…
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