kumimonster ◾ ◾ obon festival / san jose

the weather here has been wonderful since i've been back
and this weekend i decided that i've been wasting too much time keeping myself hidden away in doors.
my brother invited me to meet up with his wife to go visit the Obon Festival in San Jose.
I ended up going with Samar and meeting them down there instead.
She's been needing distractions too and so together we've been attempting to avoid being sedentary with our own thoughts.
(although she's been more successful at keeping busy under much more saddening circumstances).

it was already quite warm and we kind of knew it was going to get warmer.
we got there a little early and found parking easily but since the shows hadn't started yet, we walked around the area instead.
oh, and my brother was late in arriving too.

All the photos are at the moblog

we also submitted ourselves as donors for the national bone marrow donor program thingy.
for ethnic minorities it was free
but it seems they have an overabundance of people, uh.. well of white people. so they had to pay $52 to put themselves up as donors!
filling out the forms was kind of funny because they actually had several different boxes to check for 'white' people.
i know different types of 'white' people exist but i think it's the first time i've ever seen it.

my brother showed up and we got him to sign up as well while the baby just wanted to go everywhere especially the places where she would win toys or else watch taiko drummers.