Summer Festivals

Summer Festivals

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The Nakameguro festival was filled with surprises this year. We set out with a varied group ranging from friends, co-workers, friends of friends, visitors and ex-colleague couples. Despite the unplanned anomaly of the group, things turned out quite well. Visitors had English-speakers to chat with, Symantec-ers had other Symantec-ers, diving became an international language and Japanese speakers had those that tried very hard (me!).

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The day's highlights ranged from creating our little outdoor restaurant with front-row seats to the parade, befriending extremely warm-hearted staff at the sushi restaurant, shielding raindrops the size of golfballs from bombing our beer to watching 80-yr old fluoro street dancers bust a move.

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First time in my own Yukata -

Orange is not a common choice I heard....

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(Thanks for tying my obi Reiko)