Last night in Hiroshima was the first day of their summer festival. Usually it is next week but they moved it up a week because of rain! It was a blast! Very neat to see what types of food they have for festival food... they had squid on a stick (very tasty) and hot dogs without the buns, snow cones, these egg rolls on chopsticks and various other ways to serve squid and egg. We tried a whole bunch of stuff it was really tasty. We also watched some Japanese dancing.
This morning we headed to Himeji Castle which is said to be tbe best Samari castle in Japan. You can go inside and climb the 6 floors. THey have all sorts of differnt holes in the wall that accomidated differnt weapons i.e. bow and arrows, etc. We explored this garden next door and we have tea at a formal tea ceremony (no amount of yoga could prepare me for sitting on my heels for SO long!) At the tea ceremony we met this nice couple from LA and they are staying at the same ryokan as we are.
So we just arrived at the ryokan and we are just about to head off to explore Kyoto. The ryokan is very nice they even brought us iced green tea after we arrived. We actually have a private balcony too!
Hope everything is going well over there!!! Go SENS GO!
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Hi Laura and Anna,
Sounds like you are having great fun. I guess the rain was a good thing this time. We are ready for the Sens game. Dad will be going. Take care, Love Mom
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