Forest Park Festival

Today is a festival at a nearby park, so we are planning on going, the festival starts at noon and continues until 8:30pm. There will be a treasure hunt for the kids at 3:00pm so we are planning on going at 2:30pm to let the kids join in on the treasure hunt.

Yasuko went over to Fujita-sans house to help with another vegetable sale they are having today, and I stayed home and worked in the garden some. Yasuko came back home at 2:00pm and we all got ready and headed to the park, it only takes about 10 minutes to get there.

As we arrived Sumi-san and her kids were arriving also, and about 10 minutes later Fujita-san arrived with her kids, all of the kids were called to the stage and then a picture of a basketball and tennis court were held up, all of the kids took off running for the basketball courts, over at the basketball courts was someone holding up a sign of a fire truck, which was the next place to go.

At the fire truck were little pieces of paper that said whether you won something or not. Koby and Evan didn't win anything on their first try but went back and got another piece of paper, Evan didn't win the second time either but Koby won 500 yen ($5).

After the treasure hunt Yasuko looked around at the flea market and I ran into my friend Ben the ALT english teacher, we talked for a bit while the kids ran around the park and played, then we decided to go home and eat and take baths and return later for the fireworks show.

When we arrived back home Ueo-san was planning another cookout outside and invited us, I told him that we were planning on going to the fireworks festival, and he said to join him when I got back. Masani-san came over and looked at the garden, Ueo-san asked Masani-san to join him in which he did.

We had fun at the fireworks show but it didn't last very long, maybe about 15 minutes, we all loaded back up and came home. When we got back I was in the house for about 10 minutes when Masani-san was hollering in the door for me to come on, haha.

I went over to Ueo-sans house and was surprised to see Kitayama-san was there also, I drank sake while the others had been drinking sochu (potato vodka). Masani-san and myself were the last ones left, and both decided at the same time to end the party. I came home and went straight to bed.

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