I hate blogging and have already FAILED my New Years Resolution to be better....so after nearly a month it is time for a power blog update....
Starting with May 3rd....
On May 3rd I joined a few friends for what we have decided is the greatest idea in history....strawberry tabihodai (all you can eat!) Just walk up and down the aisles of plants and eat....YUMMY!
After we ate till we were sick a few of us went down to a fox matsuri. This is a wedding celebration. A special engaged couple is chosen (out of 19 applicants she told us) and well, I don't exactly understand the point of the celebration. But the bride is paraded around the town until she meets her groom on the bridge and then there is lots of celebrating....it was a LOT of Japanese.
You could have your face painted like a fox like the bride...
and apparently watching the foreigners get their face painted was worth taking pictures. Jon took a picture of the 8 people taking pictures of us....
Laura, Yoshie and me with our foxy-fox-faces....
Even the police officers had their faces painted!! They were cute....
After all the face painting commotion, and good food it was time for the fox bride to walk and meet her groom. She was presented to everyone at the temple where she started her walk.
Many other men, women and children walked with her...carrying lanterns, fans and dancing. I am sure there is more explanation but we didn't fully understand....
She meet her groom on the bridge...everyone drank and celebrated....we didn't understand but we certainly enjoyed the festivities!!
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