Icciv's notes in Japan

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you!

It's throwing it down outside, the baseball pitch in front of school now looks more like a muddy lake. My mum arrived on Tuesday and I swear she brought the British weather with her.




Anyway, how great is this photo! I think it shows the true essence of Will. Bless him. He owns five of these jumpers and aren't they lovely.





As usual, I have photos from ages ago but none of current events, but I should sneak the laptop to work on Monday and try and get up to date. Anyhow, here are the Nagasaki festival photos.

Look at these two, such great friends. Alistair and Carrie in Milan, an Indian in Nagasaki. Very yummy.

All the stalls on the first night were so beautiful. They sold amazing food, yum! Here is Melissa and Carrie enjoying it.

Here is the decoration in Nagasaki precinct, very nice!

On the first day we tracked down the lion dancers before they started and got some happy snaps with them. Here is Melissa with two people from the procession. I got a free hankerchief that should bring me luck!

Then the lions (though it took me a great while to distinguish they were lions) came out and ran and snapped and were scarily close to my fingers at one point.

Roar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and again......roar!

This is the traditional Japanese dance. It was really beautiful and we were lucky to catch it.

This is the dragon dance, and we waited nearly 2 hours for this! Then all the kids stood right in front of us and we couldn't see a thing!

This is the boat dance that we just caught outside our hotel so we were really lucky. Each dance parades around the streets of Nagasaki giving small good luck tokens or gestures to business, for goodluck in the next year.

Also the boat is full of children! Who are playing musical, pretty cool. Can you spot Pippa running through this photo?

Finally, here is Alistair and Pippa on the last night in Nagasaki enjoying some drinks.

So, that was Nagasaki festival in a nutshell, though more did happen. Like on the second night when 10 of us went for dinner and then karaoke, and then to this club. The club was ace because it played lots of cool rock tunes and we all just danced until about 4am. Anyway......got to get my bus.....in the rain. Grrrr

posted by Icciv @ 11:13 am