Spring Hanami
Kiomye and I went out for some hanami (flower viewing) at Shukugawa yesterday. The cherry blossoms along the river are in full bloom and the day was perfect for a picnic. Of course, about a billion other people thought so too. I was so shocked when we got to the station and had to shove our way through the platform crowd to get out of the station, only to be pushed into the crowd of people waiting for their groups outside the station, only to be tumbled into the hoards of people scoping out naked river-side tarp property for their picnics. Kiomye and I walked a long, LONG way from the station before the crowd thinned enough to allow for actual viewing of the flowers and occasional snatches of spring peace.
One unexpected good point to the crowds was that food and game booths had been set up along the river. Yea! Squid bits fried in gooey batter! Yummy! Kiomye played a game where she tried to scoop up live fish with a paper net before it disolved into nothingness. She only caught one fish, and then becuase I cheated and helped her, but the man was nice and let her pick out four to take home. She named the three orange ones Ichi, Ni and San (one, two, three in Japanese) and the black one is Toto. I have no idea why. I thought for sure we'd lose a couple fish on the way home - especially by the way Kiomye kept banging the bag against her legs, the train doors, the shopping bags of the people in the crowd, but all four have survived two days now. Pretty good.
posted by Scribbler @ Sunday, April 09, 2006
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