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August 2024
And then the next week I got to go to another festival! Once again I had an unbelievable 24 hours off. I slept most of the day because I really needed it. I had offered to get a ticket to the festival for my mom, but she was afraid that she wouldn’t have enough energy so she decided to stay on the ship. There was a special crew tour and I was honored when my Japanese teammates insisted that I be on the same bus, so we could all sit together.
Bye Diamond Princess!
On the ship, Hiroshi was hosting the theater with Andi (the English Cruise Director) so Mikiko (the Japanese Cruise Director) could go to the festival. I told my mom to go watch him and support him since I couldn’t be there.
We were seated right across from the guests who came to all of my events, so they shouted at me like I was a celebrity.
I had a front row seat.
The different groups slowly danced down the street right in front of us.
It was so cool.
It went on for hours.
And then a giant kitty showed up.
Then the kids came through with such precise moves.
There were drums and musical instruments.
We snuck out before it ended so we could get back to our tour bus on time. A few weeks later, we had a folkloric show that I hosted in the Princess theater with dancers from this region. I was so excited that I could tell them that I saw the actual festival that their show represented. I also took a lot of videos which I will post attached to this blog post on Facebook.