We also checked out the lights in the local square. They had the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force band playing at the lighting of the square with a "Japanese Santa" as the little boy next to me said. He was American but told me American Santa flies out to his house to drop off presents even though this is Japanese Santa's territory. Apparently every country in his book has their own Santa and that is how Santa gets to every house. Hmmmm.
Every Year, they make a new lighted scene for Sasebo Christmas so here is this years. OF Course, note the Sasebo Burger, our city's specialty food.
The next weekend we planned to head up to the Dazifu Antique Bazaar, which I have been trying to go to for almost a year now for their cheap Kimonos and obis. And of course the day we picked, it snowed for the first time in a few years. There was about a quarter inch of the ground that stuck around for a little bit. VERY COLD! But beautiful so quite worth the frozen fingers. Unfortunately, it was a little dark so the pictures weren't as beautiful as the landscape actually was. I did score a beautiful obi for $20 and Kimono for only $30. Nice!
To warm up a little, we found this traditional style restaurant with a beautiful garden in the back.
I had Sashimi (raw seafood) on a bed of rice with Miso soup, pickled vegetables and green tea- Yum!
After lunch it had warmed up quite a bit and a lot of the snow had melted so we did one more round of shopping before heading back home.
This was a crazy tree with tons of vegetation growth on it - if that is any indicator to everyone as to how wet it is here year round...Just like Oregon.
This little girl was so cute and dressed up to visit the Temple for her 5th birthday. Good thing they start kids off with fur early. Little divas in training!
As we walked back I took a picture of this "scary Santa". Not exactly how I want to picture Santa!
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