The day after checking the parade out, we got up early and brought Ken down South to check out the flying of the kites- Tako Age. Now don't get confused- tako is kite in Japanese and age is as in age means to raise. Some may think that that tako means Octopus and age means to deep fry. The kanji is all wrong for that!
We parked our car at a nearby park and took a shuttle bus to the flying grounds. Soon after we got off the bus we saw that visitors could try to fly their own kites. We didn't try this time around, maybe next time.
Setsuko, Ritsy's sister was already there as her new boyfriend is in charge of a food kiosk or something at the fair. She walked with us for a while and then took off. We walked through the park which I had never been to before, a beautiful setting for the fair!
Soon we could hear the familiar Washoi-Washoi and saw as a group of people passed us by. The sky behind them is littered with Kites flying high.
At last we came to the giant open field with numerous teams in the process of setting up, taking down or flying and navigating their kites. It was quite beautiful!Continued tomorrow...
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