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Today was the Moriyama City Summer Festival, aka Lotus Festa. It started around 3pm, but since that's the hottest time of day, I waited until the sun started to set before going to check it out.
I rode out on my bike first to make sure the festival was in front of the station where I thought it would be. Then I came back home, put on my yukata (a process that took about half an hour), and walked back to the station area.
Warning: Walking down stairs in geta is not for the faint of heart.
I skipped supper because I figured I could buy some fries or something at the festival. Unfortunately, I only saw one vendor selling fries, and the line was quite long. ALL the lines were long, actually. This is because, although there were TONS of people, there were relatively few vendor stalls. (Fewer than I'm used to from other festivals I've been to, at any rate.) I walked all the way from one end of the festival to the other, which was a fair distance, and then walked back. I thought I would run into some of my students, but I never did, possibly because many of them commute from cities far away.
I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow, if any of the ones I took turned out okay. I'm a bit tired tonight after all the walking around trying to balance on my geta. (I nearly fell more than once. ^_^;)
Update: ( Pictures! )
I rode out on my bike first to make sure the festival was in front of the station where I thought it would be. Then I came back home, put on my yukata (a process that took about half an hour), and walked back to the station area.
Warning: Walking down stairs in geta is not for the faint of heart.
I skipped supper because I figured I could buy some fries or something at the festival. Unfortunately, I only saw one vendor selling fries, and the line was quite long. ALL the lines were long, actually. This is because, although there were TONS of people, there were relatively few vendor stalls. (Fewer than I'm used to from other festivals I've been to, at any rate.) I walked all the way from one end of the festival to the other, which was a fair distance, and then walked back. I thought I would run into some of my students, but I never did, possibly because many of them commute from cities far away.
I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow, if any of the ones I took turned out okay. I'm a bit tired tonight after all the walking around trying to balance on my geta. (I nearly fell more than once. ^_^;)
Update: ( Pictures! )
