Saturday, July 30, 2011

Saturday, July 30th: Lightening bugs and dressing Japanese

In the morning, Madelyn and I went on a bike trip to the mall area (only 6 miles to get there and back).  We got to go to all the stores we had wanted to before we left Japan, so now I think our shopping is done.  Yay!  The only thing that might be purchased is a yukata because Minako said she might know a place where we could get them for a good price.  Oh, you don't know what a yukata is?  Well just look below and you'll see :)


Me in a yukata!
(you-kah-tah)
This evening we were invited to Dr. Shin's condo for dinner.  It turned out to be a dinner party with the entire Nishimura family and 2 couples from the church/school!  Dinner of KFC, pizza, tacos, salad, fruit, french fries, donuts, and applesauce cake.  Yeah, lots of food :)
After dinner was yukata time for Madelyn and me!  The kids put on their little Japanese jammies too :)
Us and the Nishimura grandkids
(Nono kun, Yui chan, and Naomi chan)

Check out our bows!

Doing some yukata sitting
I liked my bow :)
 After yukata pictures had been taken, we headed off to a festival of lightening bugs.  They're uncommon here, apparently, so everybody thought it was a big deal.  I just liked wearing the yukata :)
Madelyn, Majelyn, and me in the elevator

Cute kiddos :)

Owner of the yukatas :) she also tied
them for us cuz it's kinda a huge task
 After the bugs, we returned to the Nishimura's to watch fireworks shot off from somewhere in the surrounding city.  It was pretty :) Just a late celebration of the 4th of July for us!
Boom!

Nono kun with sandle-hands!
All in all, a very good day dressing Japanese :)

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