The Goldfish Festival

This was way back in August. This town, Yanai (Saki's hometown), is famous for it's Goldfish papercrafts and puts on a great festival every year. Lot's of yummy food (barbecued squid and octupus amoung the delicacies) although in the photo above we're eating Japan's rival to the slush puppy- obviously. I'm yet to figure out the appeal of a rubbery octupus tentacle on a wooden stick... it's those suckers.