Fields of Gold (and white, and pink)

Spring is quickly rolling into summer here and Golden Week (four holidays between April 29-May 5) kicks off the beginning of festival season.  We decided to start things off by heading out to Ie Island (a new one for us) to check out the Lily Festival.

Logan riding the ferry.  He looks pretty complacent because he’s just woken up from his nap in the car.

This is what greeted us when we got there.  Fields of flowers, ocean views and little old ladies with parasols (love Japan!).

Here we are!

 

Logan found a hole in the rock/sign and was having a grand time playing peekaboo.  On a side note, “hole” is one of Logan’s new words, along with “razes” (raisins), “pie” (up high), and a bunch of animal sounds.  He also says “way” and, although it sounds the same, it definitely has two meanings in his world, either “away” (as in put something away) or “oui” (yes in French).

Most of the afternoon went about like this: Logan dug in the dirt and made friends with the Japanese folk while Mommy took pictures of the flowers and Logan; Daddy chased both of us around until we stopped long enough to take this picture!

This was one of Logan’s friends from the ferry ride on the way home.  His name was Jenki and, as you can see, he admired Logan’s blond hair.  Logan mostly admired Jenki’s snacks!  (How do you teach a child not to mooch when all the Japanese people are so eager to share with him?)

Dragon boat races are on Wednesday, but they are down in Naha and traffic/parking gets pretty crazy so I’m not sure yet whether Logan and I are going to attempt it.  It depends on what kind of a mood I’m in . . . either way, I’ll have more pictures for you soon!