Hanami!!

Last weekend was hanami weekend for Utsunomiya. On Saturday, I met up with Danielle, self proclaimed “best Canadian ever” (she actually is pretty cool), Aussie Brooke, and English Matt, and headed to the park in the centre of town with the hope of finding other ALTs. After a tedious three or four minute search, we gave up and started drinking, eventually finding them four or five hours later, and hung out with them for a few hours. Then it was off to “yakitoridori” (chicken alley) for dinner, where I’m relatively certain no-one ate any chicken… And then, yet again, karaoke, for maybe the sixth time that week? Grand old times, karaoke is. Then, it was Sunday morning, and time to head back to the park to break Brooke’s bike lock – she lost her key, then off to another park for some more hanami with some more friends, this time alcohol free, for me anyway. Here, we played ultimate Frisbee, although, to be fair, there was nothing ultimate about what we were playing, it was quite pathetic really. Then we met some new foreigners and played Charades while doing some night hanami, which is the same as day hanami, only in the dark (for those who may be easily confused). Provided this week’s rain hasn’t destroyed all of the blossoms, I may do some more hanami this weekend, and will definitely be doing so next weekend up in Fukushima.