We woke up at around 8 annd started walking to where the Jidai Parade was going to be held. Bought more stuff, sent more stuff in the mail, went to a conveniance store and bought some food. Two rice balls, and I shall say once again `I love Rice balls!!!` I really need to figure out how to make them. I`ve tried twice, the first time was a disaster and the second time they diodn`t taste anything like the ones here do. Ask Mackenzie about the first batch, and possibly the second, we`ve done sushi together twice.
So, back to what we bought. Wew got this desert thing that sort of fellk apart and I hid behind mom to eat my part of it. And we got a bowl of Udon noodles that they heat up in the microwave and then give to you.
So, we just sat on the side of the road where a lot of other people were eating and gobbled it up. Ok, maybe just I gobbled. Then we stood on the bridge for the next hourt. I took that time to read some of the book of John.
Then the parade started. The outfits were great. It was fairly uneventful though, not really any acts. A few instraments. Flutes. Serene you would of liked that. It sounded really pretty. Some of the guys carrying these things were being funny. When the parade stopped, which itdid often, one of them was doing really funny poses.
The horses in it, were in terrible shape. Most were really tall and leggyt and scrwny and ugly, and some were sway back, most very badly behaved. An old guy ina samurai outfit actaully fell off of his horse. I think the horse side stepped and he wasn`t ballanced, beacause the saddle slid sideways and he fell off. I started laughing my head off. Maybe I`ve become callased to people falling off or something. I think its just that I know how to tell pretty quick if someone fell off in a way that would hurt them, and I was pretty sure he was fine. So there I am laughing my head off, with mom tyelling me to quit becuase he might bew hrt,and everyone else gasping. I guy did walk over and laugh though, so I took that as a go ahead to keep laughing. The theyt tried for a long time to fix the saddle, and then walked the horse down the parade. A little later the guy walked down too. We saw two other hoprses without riders. I wonder of something similar happened?
Ata bout 3:45 we headed to the train statiopn for the Kurama fire festival. It was very difficult to figure out where to go, and the trains were crowded, but we did it!!!
The festival was cool, and it took us an hour of standing in line to get out of there, but it was very touristy. The did a lot of torch lighting, helping the little kids hold it, and then the guys did it in their weird loin cloth out fits. I didn`t tell mom about that part before hand. Hehehe!!!
There were tons of police, the most freindly kind that exist on this planet earth and they were evrywhere trying to get people to keep moving up becuase it was very crowded in spots.
That about summerizes it!!
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