Saturday, August 05, 2006

水戸 黄門 まつり

Mito was buzzing this weekend with festivals and celebrations!

The festivities started last night with a spectacular firework show honoring, the Mito Koumon, the second lord of the Mito clan.

Mito puts on a wonderful firework show lasting 90 or so minutes! I had never seen a show like this until we moved here.

Stone hanging out with his Uncle Aaron and buddy, Freedom!

Stone always is so happy and excited to see Erisa and Reiko! They spoil him like crazy!

A family photo... Stone has decided that smiling for the camera is no fun!

Today was the "big" day of the festival... there were parades, floats and dance shows! Since we have lived in Japan for 7 years and have never really attended the festivities on a Saturday we decided that we would brave the heat and head downtown to see what was all the hype! I am so glad we went...

Safe in his daddy's arms Stone enjoyed watching all the action!

Stone had a great view from daddy's shoulders!

What better way to spend the first weekend of summer vacation than with family!?

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