Eisa Festival

On the second night here, our sponsor and his family took us to the Eisa Festival in town. It's a traditional drum festival on Okinawa. It's a dance celebration for prayers of good health and a good harvest. You can learn more about it here: http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=8868
It was a pretty neat experience of the culture here.

Instead of the typical fried dough stands you see at fairs, they had stands where you could get noodles, fried rice, or yakitori (chicken on a stick). They also had stands of the exotic, crazy, huge bugs found on the island, but I did not take a picture of that.

Trying out chopsticks

The drums!

She slept the entire time!