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Friday, April 7th, 2006
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2:57 am
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It's been an interesting past couple weeks. Work has, of course, been eating up most of my time, but not enough to keep me from doing important things with my family. Mika and I decided we'd take Miyuki to her first Hina Matsuri this year. Mika had gone and picked out two new kimonos for the occasion--Miyuki's is red with orange carp swimming around it. Tomajiro got a new one, but he'll wear it on Boy's Day.
The festival itself was nice. It was nice to get away from work. I had a few people recognize me [when I took off my sunglasses], but I dismissed them quite quickly. Miyuki was quite intrigued with the hina-ningyo set up at the front of the festival. She really seemed to be attached to the Mebina doll. We bought an entire set for her, and an extra Kozutsumi for Tomajiro, Mebina for Miyuki.
The festival practice hina-okuri. We helped the twins make a couple previously when we researched this. Miyuki cried when we had to sail the doll off on the water, but Tomajiro thought it was the funniest thing and kept asking to do it again.
We sat and had some of the food there. Miyuki wouldn't touch the green Hishimochi, but rather adored the white Hishimochi. Mika and I had some chirai-zushi and shirozake. We decided to save a couple hina-arare cakes for tomorrow's dessert.
Miyuki and Tomajiro had sung a few words of the Hina Matsuri theme song fine. All together:
Akari o tsukemashou bonbori ni
明かりをつけましょう ぼんぼりに
Ohana o agemashou momo no hana
お花をあげましょう 桃の花
Go-nin bayashi no fue taiko
五人ばやしの 笛太鼓
Kyo wa tanoshii Hinamatsuri
今日は楽しいひな祭り
All in all, the night was eventful and the twins had fun.
Ryuichi's birthday was soon to follow. As usual, Ukai-san and I invited him to our local pub for some drinks for a couple hours. Sakuma-san told us all about his time with Tatsuha, Shindou-kun and the gifts he received. He was particularly over-excited when Ukai-san ordered him a Shirley Temple with five cherries in it. We told him that was our form of a birthday cake, ha ha. We had only been there for a few hours. Ukai-san left after Sakuma-san. I came home last; everyone was in bed when I got home.
Back to work... New contracts to sign, older ones to break.
OOC Note</b>: To learn all the info above on the Hina Matsuri, from the dolls, to the food to the song, go here.
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