Kumano Jinja Matsuri!

Last week Grace had the opportunity to participate in her schools annual festival parade. She goes to a Shinto school and so once a year the parade through the streets of Shibata Town to collect donations from people. During this parade they pull a small shrine for the people to see. We thinks its a great cultural experience for not only for Grace, but us. Its funny because all the parents are trying to video record this event and so people watching from the sidewalks can't really see the children with all the parents hovering over the kids. And as a parent trying to record the event you get pretty good at walking backwards with out falling over. Here are some pictures from the parade.



All ready to go in her class room.

She was the tail end of the parade.

All done. These little kids walked very far.