Fireworks and Bullet Train sushi

Ena and I went to another fireworks festival near the Kaikan a couple days ago. I took a short video and its now my first Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCQVEZRie0

It was fun, though we didn't stay for long. We ran into some friends there:

We also went and had sushi a couple of times at this new restaurant near campus. Its a lot of fun, they have a bullet train track that takes your food to you when you order something:

This is how many plates of sushi we had (105 yen each):

You can either order stuff via the bullet train or just take the plates off the conveyor belt as they whiz by your table. If you order them via bullet train though in addition to getting to see the cool train you also get to play a slot machine. We won a prize, this pack of nori:

Fireworks in Fukuoka

Ena and I went to the Fireworks festival in Ohori Park today. It was quite impressive, the show lasted an hour and a half and was far and away the best display of fireworks I've ever seen. Ohori park is near the site of Fukuoka castle, this is Ena in front of the moat:

We had Takoyaki from a vendor for dinner:

We ran into some friends who had bought yukata for the occasion there:

On the way back we rode our bikes through Nakasu, which is Fukuoka's entertainment district


There was this bizarre stall with a cat selling ice cream on the sidewalk that I had to take a few pictures of:



Also this sidewalk stall where people try to fish eel out of a bucket (the prize for winning: an eel) was kind of interesting:



Question: It is 11:30 on a Saturday night, where is your 5 year old son?

Answer: He is in Fukuoka's red light district with a bunch of hostesses trying to fish eels out of a big bucket. Where else would he be?