Kawagoe Festival!

We enjoyed going to the big festival in Kawagoe or Little Edo.

We enjoyed lots of festival food.

Well some of it we may have passed on. Although it does smell delicious.

Who can pass on these bananas though?

The floats were so neat

This dragon was so fun. It bit the girls head, I think it brings them good luck. Everyone cheered and laughed when Gena cried.

Around this point I started to notice that Gena was getting her picture taken ALOT!

This is Gena trying to make the Japanese peace sign for her many photographers.

Then we bought the girls one of these candy covered fruit

Then Jeb stepped into a handmade knife store. I waited outside with the girls because it was so crowded inside.

As you can tell Jeb had the camera with him taking pictures of knives. Meanwhile I was outside where The girls were attracting the attention of many Japanese photographers. At first it was cute them stopping to take their pictures. Then they kept taking pictures, then more of them came, until I was surrounded by a whole circle of Japanese people taking pictures of the girls. It started to make me nervous, so I started to try to move the girls away and after a few more minutes they took the hint and slowly dispersed. Finally Jeb came out of the shop unaware of all the attention, Yuck, it was just uncomfortable.


The rest of the festival was fun, the floats move around the street then when they would cross paths they had to "battle" by trying to get the other floats drummers to lose their rhythm.

Love the little kids in the parade

Then we were ready to go home, it was very crowded by that time and it was very difficult to get out of the city.

Then time for a short train ride home.

All in all it was a great time.

Here is some video to get a feel for the fun