{"id":5051,"date":"2013-08-11T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimeemajor.com\/wp\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2015-05-23T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T00:56:17","slug":"tanabata-nisei-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimeemajor.com\/wp\/blog\/tanabata-nisei-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanabata Nisei Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really enjoyed hanging out with friends at the Tanabata Festival in Little Tokyo for Nisei Week. You can read more about Tanabata and the decorations here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>. Tanabata is the one day a year when the lovers Hikoboshi and Orihime can be together. Normally they are separated by the Milkyway (the heavenly river). The big octopus-like streamer decorations (Fukinagashi)<\/b><\/i> are the fabric that Orihime weaves. It’s also a holiday where people “wish for skills” on slips of paper.<\/p>\n

This is my birthday weekend so it was really fun to be able to go out with a big group of friends and enjoy a festival.<\/p>\n

I wore my new yukata that I made recently out of some beautiful stash fabric I had sitting around for probably about 8 years. I love boldly striped kimono but I don’t have hardly any so I was very happy to wear this. I also am wearing a removable lace collar and a hot pink heko-obi combined with my normal yukata obi.
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We brought our twins with us for a while. They had new yukata, too! They were a present from our friends Derek and Crystal. This is me and Miss R.
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Sheyne and Miss J.
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Mitch and Miss R.
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My friend Derek and his adorable daughter Kaelyn enjoying the fukinagashi decorations.
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We even had time to do purikura (fancy photobooth photos)! First purikura for the babies!<\/p>\n

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I got to introduce my friend Crystal and her crazy adorable 2-year old daughter to purikura, too!\"pkk\"<\/p>\n

Okonomiyaki!<\/a>\u00a0We ate lots of delicious street food! I had a green tea donut, some cold soba noodles and all kinds of stuff.
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Michelle, Miss R and me.
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Alcuin, TrueMee and me. \ud83d\ude42 TrueMee made the Star Wars and Captain America yukata they are wearing!
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TrueMee, Michelle, me and Jenny.
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Can you see the babies in the back? \ud83d\ude42
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