Kyoo wa, benri toh ee deshita!

Well, lack of studying aside, the day turned out very well.
My buddy turned up with a pretty good excuse, so we studied for about two hours.

Afterwards, I went and picked up the Fam and we took the train Downtown to the Japanese Festival. It was a little hot, but still a good time.

The festival turned out a fairly big crowd. (Compared to the last two years.) It was located on the street behind the Salt Palace Conv Ctr and next to the Buddhist Temple.






Vince got a huge kick out of the Taiko Drum group.
Can't say I blame him. They were big, loud and perfectly timed.
The stage had pretty good acoustics, so they didn't need a lame sound system to amplify the drums.





We took a break in the shady driveway behind the Buddhist Temple.

The temple gym had a display set up about the Topaz Internment Camp in Southern Utah and the Japanese Americans that fought in WWII. It was all very interesting.
A little sad, but interesting.

Vince started to get a little punchy after about an hour.
To him, we were in a hot place with a ton of strange people.
He did pretty good, overall.
Lisa and I figured that he deserved a break.





And here it is!
After leaving the festival, Lis and I took Squirt to the olympic fountain at the Gateway.
We splashed around for a little bit and then topped the whole day off with some Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

All in all, a great day.