Seriously, if I didn't have a test and oral exam tomorrow, and a hard super important test and practical on Wednesday, this weekend could have been enjoyed to the greatest extent. Yesterday started off a bit blah, because my parents ended up getting here an hour later than they expected, and then we ended up driving around the city for 45 minutes because my dad insisted on using the MapQuest directions he printed off, but we couldn't find the road we were looking for. Eventually my mom just went on the Freeway. And we got there a bit late, but eventually we made it to the Renaissance Festival, with enough time to walk back to the jousting arena for the fist joust. Our knight was cool, his colors were awesome. Although I couldn't get over the master of arm's horse. Last year it was a big beautiful black horse, but this year it was white. What I loved about it though was that whenever she was just kind of in place and not riding around, her horse would dance around. It was awesome. And then, unlike the other years, when the queen/king came out the horse bowed. After that we hurried our way back to the entrance, because I wanted to see the gypsy violinist. I felt bad because we were the only ones who were actually there the entire time listening to her and not just sitting there to eat lunch (although we were eating lunch, I had a broccoli cheese soup bread bowl). I actually ended up buying one of her CD's, I liked the music. And then there was a quick walk over to Three Guys and a Bunch of Drums. I'm pretty sure it was a new show this year, but if it wasn't I don't know why I've never gone to see it before. HILARIOUS. It was so funny, although they did some awesome stuff with the drums (and triangles) too. Then...it was walking around for a bit, buying a dragon candle and then back to jousting for the second joust. And we watched that, and then...I don't think we watched another show, just walked around some (went to look at the hawks in the cages), went to the petting zoo and then back to jousting. And then we went home. The weather was absolutely perfect. I was worried it was going to rain and my parents would wimp out, but it didn't. Until the last jousting it was cloudy all day and nice and cool, which was awesome. Even this time of the year it gets WAY to warm there with the sun out.
And then last night my grandma shows me this thing in the paper for a Japanese Festival and my mom said we could go for a few hours. So today we went for a few hours to Matsuri. It was really cool, when we got there the taiko drummers were performing. I think my brother might end up taking classes. And strangely enough I had Japanese food for the first time. Curry! Chicken curry. It had an interesting taste to it, wasn't too bad. My mom hated it though when I gave her a try. And some type of dumpling which was good, and a Japanese soda. While we ate we listened to some band that did j-pop/anime themes. They were alright, although I'm not sure whether I should feel ashamed or proud that I could name all the songs that they played. I ended up recording "God Knows" since she started playing when we were about to go look around. Just lots of looking around, there was a lot of interesting stuff there. I found a flier for the iaido dojo up there, I'm going to see if I can take lessons over the summer. When we found a program for the festival I was bummed (and somewhat angry) that we had missed the kyudo demonstration (because my dad was being a butthead earlier and was trying to decide whether or not he wanted to go). And then I was even more bummed because one of the groups performing in it was the club on campus and I would have really liked to ask them for some information because I want to join but can't find any information on it. Saw a bunch of bonzai trees by the Bonzai Appreciation Society and I got a couple of bags (a Fruits Basket book bag with Kyo on the front and a FMA backpack with Ed on it. I wanted to get another book bag but they only had Al and Roy on the large FMA ones. Sadly we had to leave early, although the entire family said they didn't think it would be that interesting. I laughed though at all the cosplayers. Cosplaying is really something that you'd do at a festival, but I guess they saw this as something Japanese thus an opportunity to cosplay.
It is past eight, and I haven't even started studying yet...I need to get at least another B on my Japanese pop culture test tomorrow, shouldn't be too hard (although I have yet to even look at the notes). And after that is over I must practice like crazy for my Japanese oral. I still have problems pronouncing ra, ri, ru, re and ro. It's supposed to be a mix of r, l and d. Easier said than done.
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Amber. 20. Nov. Arizona. Harry Potter. Fullmetal Alchemist. Anna Tsuchiya. MythBusters. Romi Paku. More?
