Nagasaki Lantern Festival Feb '11

We went to the Nagasaki Lantern festival the beginning of Feb. it was so much fun! i almost didnt go, a little scared about going out by myself but Jane had talked me into it and i went with three other wives from the denver. we went early in the week so there wouldnt be too many people. i thought it was crazy packed but Jane kept saying how there was so few people. we could barley push our strollers through the crowd! and yes four white women pushing strollers is quite a sight to behold here. i think we had about just as many pictures taken of us as were taken of the lanterns! it is weird to be the minority, even weirder when people ask to take pictures with your kids!

a park we stopped at, notice the dinosaur lanterns in the back ground? aj is obsessed with dinosaur train right now and the first thing he did was to go down the line and name them all. he knows a lot of them too. sometimes he corrects me!

A cute moment of holding hands, these are a few of our buddies from playgroup!

see all those people, thats not a big crowd here!

they had this huge shrine. the lantern festival is to celebrate the new year. i kinda thought they should have rabbits since it is the year of the rabbit but maybe its wrong to kill rabbits on the year of the rabbit!

So i know there are no pictures of mia but she was there mostly bundled up in her stroller. it was a warm day but got cold by the night. we are still waiting for some warm weather here. we had one good weekend last weekend and we went to siki park (amazing pictures to come!) but now its cold again, low 50s. cant wait for some warmer weather. Aj cant either he has been asking to go to the pool since January!