Interesting Link with More Photos

Ridge took this picture of Holt at the festival Sunday.

Here's a good link if you want to see more photos. Your computer will likely refuse to load the Japanese kanji and hirigana, but you should be able to see the pictures anyway. Mr. Kamaya sent this to me today. It is an online newsletter. There are a very large number of photos. Unfortunately, they cannot be enlarged.

I'll give a brief explanation of some of the photos, but there are too many to explain them all.

The first section (you should see that they are numbered by section) includes shots taked at the village hotel during a free movie that was shown. We didn't go.

The second section is the shrine festival in Kamiokoppe. They had a kid version of sumo, too, but inside due to the rain.

The third section is the longest. Here you can see more pictures of Nishiokoppe's shrine festival. The shrine is taken all over town, blessings are made, and at the end, everyone has a sip of sake. If you look, there are two pictures of us drinking sake, with Ryuya ducking behind Aaron's leg. There are also shots of the Tangu (the spirit who abducts children) and the lion dancers. All of those boys go to the middle school. There are pictures from the sumo (can you find the one with Aaron?), the Park Golf game (again, can you find Aaron?), and the party held on Monday night. By the way, the mushrooms shown in one of the pictures at the golf game are very popular, and VERY expensive. They were given as a prize during the golf game.

If you are really curious about a picture, feel free to respond to this post with a comment, and I'll do my best.

The link is:
Nishiokoppe Newsletter

again, if your computer insists on telling you that you need to install a language pack, you should be able to tell it "cancel" and just ignore all the squares and symbols that show up.