Powell Street Festival

Ray said that there was a shodo demonstration on Sunday at the Powell Street festival, which is why we went on Sunday as opposed to Saturday.  The festival occupies a park and some nearby streets.

Ray, Lenora, Risa and us piled into their car and we went to the festival.  Apparently it is not the best area of town, and there were bums mixed in with the festival-goers.  On the main staged I watched a couple of different bujitsu demonstrations.  One of them was the Katori Shinto Ryu, and the other was something like Tamiyo ryu.  Interesting to watch as their suburi is different from kendo, and their kata is more elaborate.

Risa and Nina were pal-ing around and joined a tug-o-war.

I had some BBQ wild salmon for something like $8.50 and the salmon portion was double the size I was expecting.

On the way back to the house, someone rear-ended us.  Both Nina and Risa were in the back.  No one was hurt, but the car needed some substantial fixing.