hanami

around the beginning of april is the annual cherry blossom season in japan, where japanese people go to parks, celebrate the new seasonal change, and get absolutely trashed with ridiculous amounts of beer and sake. so on the weekend of april 9 me, amanda, and a bunch of our friends headed to tsurumai park in nagoya to have a big party.

we got there around noon, and about half of the people at the park were already drunk, or hadnt stopped drinking from the night before. it sounds extreme but its really par for the course for this time of year in japan. companies dont even mind if some of their employees come into work after lunch with a little alcohol on their breath after taking a break at a hanami party for an hour.

it, as to be expected, was a good time. some of our friends got a little too drunk, but nothing bad happened...everybody to my knowledge was generally happy. the cherry blossoms were beautiful and so were the copious amounts of beer.