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22 August 2009

Misawa City Festival & Parade

We went to the Misawa City Festival last night, and had a great time. It's a three-day festival to celebrate and hope for a bountiful harvest for the year. They had many floats depicting historical Japanese Samurais which were amazing. The pictures don't do them justice. They were beautiful, and some of them had mechanical moving parts, waterfalls, snow falling, and many different other things. It was really neat, and Ashley was in awe of all the colors, people, and lights.

Ashley getting a bird's-eye view of the parade.
You can kind of see in this picture, the people pulling the floats with ropes. They were mostly children and teenagers, and they were on the floats too, singing songs and playing drums.