actually i'm not so sure that's correct, but whatever.
after another wonderful saturday kickin it eigo no sensei style
i waited for jo to head over to the kanie west (actually east but oh well)
and then our good friend Mieko came to collect us and brought us to her house
for those of you who dont know, Mieko and Satoshi are a wonderful couple who
run a chugoku no restauran ( chinese restaurant) great food and great people
anyway, saturday night was a festivil in town, about 2 min from their house in fact,
so we spent a little time at the house and then were guuided down to the festival area where this giant boat equipped with a huge mast that supported a dome of 365 lanterns as well as tall ladder type that sported 12 of these lanterns, all glowing in the darkness. when it arrived the crowds were showered with candy and small lanterns
after the boat left we headed into the carnival style area where we got to catch the end of a drum show Taiko i think it may be called, and it was very very cool
after the festival we returned to the masters (satoshi) house and proceeded to eat drink and be merry, we had great english/japanese conversations with a couple of guys who work together,
one of which lived in LA for a number of months so he acted as the translator, poor fellow,
absolutely great people, great fun, got to eat some delicious noodles, clementines, prawns, and mollusks? not sure really, i just yanked em out of their shell and tried them, rather tasty actually
then there was tonight, which is still early, but jo and i went to the Inuyama festival
lot of food stalls, all of which smelled oishi (delicious) but we are doing tacos tonight!
it was kinda like a huge dance show with some really crazy acts, ranging from teeny girl pop routines to three drummers who were realy cool, two had these huge drums that they held onto as well as used a shoulder strap, they did all sorts of cool jumps and spins and got the crowd into it, and then the guys who fought with sticks came out and fought to the beat of the drummers' then the guy spun a basketball blindfolded and dribbled between his legs while sitting down and then they drummed some more and all these people came out and were dancing and it was fun!
wow
and now jo is out trying to rent V for Vendetta (i highly reccomend it) and we bought this massive can of beer,1520ml so about alitre and a half, but the cool thing is it has a little CO2 cartridge like the little ones you use in a paintball gun, so im guessing when whe open it we get to infuse it with the CO2, kinda like a guiness widget
damn this is long,
today is sunday, tomorrow is monday, and tuesday night, the fmaily will be in Nagoya
whoah.
time to start the tacos
jo should have some pictures up soon, so be sure to check her blog out
you should anyway, its far more collected and logical than mine
peace
http://jogoestojapan.blogspot.com/
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sounds like your having a good time there things here are fine gas went up again now its at 3.12 a gallon sox lost last night trail yanks by 1 and the white sox by half a game for the wildcard they are slumping need to pick it up or else,so the orchids were nice says my wife im not much into the flower thing but u should know that later
hey dave, hope you have a brillent time with your family and that they enjoy japan as much as yourself and joanne seem to be
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