Festival! Is that Legal?!

Ok, So life in the summer in Japan is never boring.

My Branch is in an undercover shoping arcade in, kind of the centre of the city. This past weekend there was a festival! Work got pretty exciting.

This area used to be really Agricultural, it still is now, but mostly as an extra, not as primary income. So the story of this festival is that farmers got a month off, so they had a festival to celebrate during their month off.

So what happened was, the street my branch is on got really busy! But work got really really slow, because everyone wanted to party, not study i guess. So there were street vendors in the next street over, and they blocked off a 6 lane road for a block and there was all kinds of stuff, carnival shooting games and food and the Toyama professional Basketball team was there and the kids could challenge them to 2 on 2 games, and the Hokuriku soccer team was there (they are 2 leagues down from the J-League, which is the top league, but they were there, so that was pretty cool).

One of the main features of this festival is that groups of people carry around portable shrines. I'm not sure why. And they ususally wear special team out fits to do it. Well one of the teams was a Big SURPRISE! They had on big tall boots, and what looked like G-strings! The Japanese TRULY have a different attitude towards nudity! So they have like 20 guys in G-strings, marching back and forth and all around the streets, carrying these portable shirnes and shouting a marching word. I can't remember what it is bus it seems to be basically the equivilent of a one-work Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi.

So life stays exciting and we had a great chance for some really lazy festival attendance.

Now we are getting ready for our visit! getting excited about seeing everyone and being literate again!

See you soon!