Fromage and a Japanese Parade

It was a big weekend for us...

I bought a pink bike and call it the 'Pink Fromage'. We've been ridin' all over town.

We went back to Kyoto for a festival called Gion Matsuri. It was mostly made up of a parade with several floats (30 or so) which to us all looked very similar. They depict ancient themes and figures and were awfully tall...

And pulled by men. It was very, very hot, too.

With beautiful paintings of different scenes and men riding on the floats ringing bells...

Some floats were also carried by men...

It was a great, three day weekend. It's started raining again and I only have 3 more weeks for school before our summer vacation, which is going to be filled with friends visiting us and going to Shanghai! I am quite looking forward to the nice long break and maybe when we get back it will start cooling down a little bit here.