weekend bumblings and a spring festival

i call him "fishy-eyed plate-faced man"!
it's getting green!
this is the beautiful place halfway up the mountain (Okotsu) where i sprawled out in the sun and grass and read my book. ahh!

to the festival!
some awa-odori dancers...
yummy! yummy! i'm really going to miss ramen, i mean proper ramen, when i leave.
drunken victor and i with a police man. he's trying really hard not to smile. :P
care for something pickled?
oh no, i wasn't drunk at all! ;P this is what happens when they let us roam the streets, i buy silly masks!
yay! boat rides!
lol. fun times!