asian festival

A couple of weeks ago we decided to try something new (to us) and visit the Asian Festival here in town.  They kept talking about it on the news, and Rachel loves that kind of stuff (anything having to do with a party, festival, fair, whatever...if it's a celebration, Rachel's in love!) so we tried it.  It was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed walking around and looking at everything.

We've had a rather big decision come up this spring, and have decided to send Rachel to a different school next year.  I won't go into all of the specifics right now, but she's both really excited and very nervous about it.  But the reason I write about that here is that we found out that in third grade they study Japan.  So she was excited to go to the Asian festival and learn more about Japan before she's even at the school. 

Both girls enjoyed dressing up in Asian garb (Something involving dress up?  My girls are IN!)

They had a special kids area with different activities they enjoyed.

There were dancing and martial arts demonstrations, and this crazy game, which was a cross between volleyball, soccer, and martial arts. 

It was a fun day.