Back in Japan, Minato Matsuri

Back in Japan now for almost a week.  It's been fun but expensive.  Got to meet the 2 Pierres who are both pretty cool.  Hoping to go girl hunting with one of them because it would be really nice to not be single anymore.

I got back just in time for the Minato Matsuri (Minato festival).  It was really cool, the first day they had some places where you could go play games and shop for things and eat different kinds of food.  They had fireworks in the evening.

The next day they lined the main street with mostly food carts.  The Olympic fencers who won a silver medal gave a speech (Go Kenta Chida!  He's my teacher's son).  I wasn't really listening but it seemed like they were pretty excited.

Next they had a dance on the street with all the middle schools, some of the elementary schools and some other groups participating.  It was cool, except that they played the same song for 3 straight hours (with a few 5 minute breaks in-between).  The name of the dance is called "Hamarainya" and means something like "let's dance."

I'll get to the price comparison pictures sometime later!

踊る【おどる】 (odoru) to dance