Golden Week is a collection of 4 national holidays--Showa Day (honoring former Emperor Showa), Constitution Day, Greenery Day (dedicated to environment and nature) and Children's Day. We decided to spend one of our vacation days in Nara, an ancient city near Kyoto that celebrated its 1300th anniversary last year. The shrines and deities guarding the temples (left), monumental Buddha statues (below) and beautiful grounds are incomparable.
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| Hanging out with the Bresnihan family kids (Isiah and Michelle) in Nara |
In Nara the deer come up and eat from your hand and let you pet them. We took a lot of pictures:
During Golden Week we also visited Chinatown. Here's one of the manhole covers we found:
In another part of Kobe we attended a festival and had lunch with one of our dad's colleagues: Yoko Matsuda. Here's a float from the festival and the shoes worn by men who pushed it and a detail on the float:
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