Mishima Summer Festival

The family went with our new teacher friend to the Mishima Summer Festival in the city next to ours and where Alex was born.  It was at their shrine and they had lots of booths with different foods to eat.  It was a lot of fun!

There were lanterns outside of Mishima Station.

This is the Mishima Shrine.  People go to offer money and pray.

These women were playing the koto which is kind of like a Japanese harp.

Rachel and Alex are eating okonomiyaki which is a japanese pancake but it is not sweet.  It has cabbage and meat inside topped with mayonnaise and a teriyaki type sauce.  Yummy!

We got some fish food and fed the coy fish that were in the pond at the shrine.  They were so big! You can tell that they were well fed.

Just having some fun!