The rest of my summer vacation was really nice, less walking and more photos. On Saturday we
went to Yokohama, it was raining when we got there but stopped shortly thereafter. Yokohama is one of my favorite pla
ces so far. Located right next to the water, there is a great park that overlooks the ocean and is right next to Chinatown. Chinatown is pretty cool, tons of cool shops and one of the first Chinese shrines in Japan. Towards the end of the night we stopped and sat down to watch one of the street performers, an American with nearly perfect Japanese. I took a picture of him with my cellphone. Come to think of it, all of the photos in this entry are from my cellphone. Anyway, if you are unsure as to what
you are looking at, yes that is a surgical glove on his head and yes, he does blow it up so much that it pops while still on his head.
On Sunday I went to Odaiba to see the fireworks. We sat right next to the water and listened to music the whole time. Looking back, I'm pretty sad that
there will be no more fireworks festivals this year. This is a picture I took of the Statue of Liberty. I sent it to my dad and I don't think he believed me when I said it was a gift from France. But apparently, ours is not the only Statue of Liberty, it is a little bigger than this one though...
Monday was a good day too! I met Mia and Istvan (Mia's boyfriend) in Harajuku for some shopping and to check out the Meiji Shrine. While we were there Mia told
me that Istvan had proposed over the weekend! Congrats again to both of you, I am sooooo happy for you! Later in the day we went for a walk to see the Prada building, the architecture was supposed to be really cool, and it was, sort of... personally I think the building next to it was much cooler. So we did that and were heading back to the train station when we saw this man walking his four little dogs, I guess that would have been no big deal but the were all wearing sunglasses and it was something I just had to take a picture of. So there you have it, that was pretty much vacation, ahhh, good times, good times!
Although there were no more fireworks 
festivals, there was one more festival to go to in Azabujuban. Yes I did have to look that one up because for the life of me I cannot remember it. Even with all of the fireworks festivals I had been to this year I hadn't had the chance to wear my yukata, this most likely being the last time I would be able to wear it this year I seized the opportunity. The festival was really cool.
There were tons of people and more foreigners than I would have probably cared to see, though being one myself I really can't complain. The fact that we were right next to Roppongi I am sure only contributed to that fact. The bear with really big... Hehemm, well, you know... is supposed to be good luck. There were also these really talented drummers 
who would play to traditional Japanese music while people danced in a circle below the stage. I saw the most adorable girl dancing and I had to take a picture of her! Right as we were getting to the festival the marching band was just finishing up. It was really cool and reminded me of my parents so of course I had to 
take a picture! As we walked I saw all the octopus and wasn't really sure how I felt about it, so like I do with everything else, I took a picture and moved on. By the end of the festival my feet were killing me. Along with the yukata I wore the traditional shoes that go with it.
It was the first time and most certainly the last. They may be cute but cute just isn't enough!
