Golden Week, Children's Day

So the reason Colleen is off on her jaunt this week is that it's a major holiday week here; one that's pretty notorious for the amount of travel that happens. Starting today there are three national holidays in a row: Constitution Memorial Day today, the extremely vague National Holiday tomorrow, and Children's Day on Friday. I don't know anything about the other two, but Children's Day is pretty major. Pre-feminism it was known as Boy's Day and pre-windcatchers people hung an actual fish outside for every boy/child - I'm not sure if the windcatchers or inclusion of girls came first. So there have been giant windcatchers all over town the past couple weeks. Those pictured are probably 12-15 feet long and are right outside our window. I really like them. Hope some people get lazy with them and leave them up like Christmas trees.

The highlight of my Golden Week? Hmmm.... the concert was Saturday, so i don't think that counts. I'll have to go with the kiwi I had with my lunch today.

Mike