Lake Towada Firework Festival

This is a festival that is usually full of music... merriment... fish on a stick and fireworks. Unfortunately it was so rainy and windy there were no fireworks... very few people... and not so much merriment... but there was still fish on a stick... it was still really cool... here is what we found!Derick and I on the boardwalk... I was trying to turn his face.. but it just looks like I am choking him... which is really not that uncommon! It was so slippery that I kept running and slidding down for like 6 or 7 feet... it was a blast... I am sure every Japanese person that saw me thought I was special... well I guess thats nothing new!Here are the swan paddle boats we found... I was so sad the weather was too bad for us to go out in one... how hilarious!
This is my life... this is amazing... I love where I am... DUDES you all have to come visit!!! it is CRAZY....I am not sure how much fun everyone else was having but I was having a blast... I love the rain!
The wind was so strong it made this lake look like an ocean... these islands were beautiful... so Japanese... Japan is so Japanese... deep i know...
Me on the rocks next to the lake... it was so beautiful I was just running around taking pictures and my our friend told Derick that I needed a leash cause I kept running away like a two year old... oopsWe found this little Shinto Shrine in the middle of the woods on this little dirt path... Japan is so magical.. I feel like I am in a fairy tale. Ancient stairs and moss covered statues in the middle of an ancient forest full of cedar trees and ferns... amazing
This was the Shinto shrine on the top of the stairs.. I love Shinto shrines because they seem to be so in tune with nature. And when we got up there we found a little bit of sunshine...
These have something to do with the Shinto religion but i don't know what... I really like how they looked hanging there in the sun...
Tori gate leaving the forest... maybe it was the entrance and we just went the wrong way... I dont know... they are another one of my favorite parts of Japan...
We were pretty wet but we had SO much fun... I was glad we went even if there were no fireworks...
Like I said... no festival would be complete without fish on a stick... and by fish on a stick I mean WHOLE FREAKING FISH ON A STICK!