This is the Maki Summer festival.
Briget and I decided to have our selves a little roam around and check out the parade. It started with kids from the surrounding middle schools playing their band instruments, then went to different children's groups of traditional dancing, on to adult traditional Japanese dancing. All the dances where neet. My favorite where the two guys that makes the head of the dragon dance, those are always amazing! There's an illustrative story that seems to unfold as he dances the head of the dragon.

When it came time for the fireworks a darling little old lady helped us, rather led us to the prime seating for the show. She's 80 years old, just as sweet as kittens! We talked for a little while but she left. She noticed that it was getting cold and neither of us had brought our jackets or coats. So she went back to her house and brought us two coats each, one to put on and one to cover our legs like a blanket! She was just the sweetest little lady ever! I love little old Japanese ladies!