They sold gold fish by the spoon full! Wow! We let the girls get some at another stand...they were gold fish of a plastic kind! My kind of low maintenance pet!
Kimonos mixed in with modern...
Lots of people!
Streamers galore! The streets were decorated with hundreds of streamers!
Fish on a stick!
This man is making eel on a stick. Steve got some and it was wrapped up beautifully! It tasted okay. Steve really liked it!
We joined an estimated 300,000 people to celebrate the Star Festival. Romantic folklore says that once there were two lovers who only paid attention to one another and ignored their work. As punishment, the Emperor of the galaxy separated them and placed them on opposite sides of the Milky Way. The Star Festival celebrates the only day of the year that the "love stars" come together. We arrived at the festival midday to see streets lined with food stores galore. There was meat on a stick, potato on a stick, cucumber...on a stick, hot dogs on a stick....you name it...it came on a stick! We tried as much as we could! We finally, ended up in a lovely cafe (as much to get out of the heat and crowd as anything) and had a delicious sampling of fruit tarts and pie! Yum! It is a good thing we did a lot of walking!
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