Monday, July 10, 2006
Fantastic Fukuoka
The day after Kristen and I went to Tokuyama, we decided that since we were almost to the island of Kyushu, we should just hop on a train and go to Fukuoka, especially since Kristen has never been there. It was soo fun!! They are having a big festival on the 15th of July, where they parade all these floats around town. We of course weren't there for the actual festival, but they had a bunch of the cool floats just sitting on street corners for us to see. They were HUGE and soo beautiful!! They have all these intricate designs and paper mache people and buildings on them, and like everything else they have in Japan, they were BRIGHT!! It was amazing. We also went to a few really cool temples. There were all these men dressed in Jimbes (a traditional mens outfit) at this one temple. It was really cool to see. I don't know why. At another temple there was this cute old man that was soo excited that we were there and kept trying to take us around the temple and tell us things in his broken English. We also made it to the temple with the largest wooden Buddha in Japan. We of course couldn't take pictures, but we bought cool postcards to commemorate. We then headed to the local Asian Art Museum for the benefit of Kristen, who loves art.
Before we got there we had the best Tangarine ice cream drink thing I have ever had. The museum was pretty cool. My favorite art were the wooden carvings that looked like those pictures you make as a kid where you color a bunch of colors on a piece of paper and then color over it in black and then take a pin and draw a picture so the colors underneath show. It was beautiful. The only thing I didn't like was the body/performing art stuff. It was weird and most of it was pornographic. Not my idea of art. Kristen didn't even understand it. It was fun to go to an art museum again though. It was a great day and lots of fun to get out and see somethings we don't get to see on a regular basis.# posted by booboo : 4:16 AM
