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Week 29: We then finished off the day by meeting.. A REAL LIFE NINJA! And also the park mascot :]

Week 29: So she would somehow ‘summon’ the water out and then transferred it from her flowers, to her jars, to her fans, and back again (even from out of that  man’s hat!). By the end of the show there was streams of water everywhere! It was super cool!

Week 29: We then went to see.. Yup, you guessed it! Another show! All my host dad would tell me, was that there would be water.. Which I kinda guessed from the sign..

Week 29: We also helped apprehend this thief! The authorities were super pleased with us!

Week 29: Meeting some locals.

Also, what my host brother’s holding is a kids’ activity that they’re given at the beginning of the day. Inside are lists of main characters in the park that you have to search for and find. Once you find one, they’ll give you a character card of theirs (kinda like Pokemon) and you have to see if you can find them all. The guy who has his fists up? He was the last character we had to find! So we got a photo with him and some of the other characters who were around.

Week 29: Then there was a parade that went through! Some of the actors from the show before were there, but the lady in the second picture was the most impressive by far! I have no idea how she was walking so gracefully! It kinda made me wonder if parades like this were actually happening back then.. I mean, there’s the odd fashion parade every now and again at my local shopping centre where they just kinda parade through?..

Week 29: Yes, yes this was necessary.

Week 29: We even got a photo with most of the actors afterwards!

Week 29: This is what the inside of that area looked like.

Week 29: Looking at it now, I think we spent most of the day exploring and watching shows. This was another show where a family from the Edo-era are accidentally ‘transported’ to modern day, and they have to try and get back somehow. It was pretty funny, and they got people from the audience to get up and be a part of it.

Week 29: This is what I got! Cold noodles tasted so good on the hot Summer day to was! :) (Plus the menu is written in a kind of ‘Old-Japanese’ style, I thought that was cool!)

Week 29: After all that exploring, walking around the place, just generally ninja-ing around, it was definitely time for lunch. This is the restaurant we stopped at.

Week 29: Exploring II

Week 29: Exploring I

Week 29: This is what it was like!

Week 29: After we’d been looking around for a while, we stumbled across some of the staff members setting up something. They had heaps and heaps of bowls of water that they were preparing.. I had no idea what they were for until some of the guys like we saw back at the hotel came around the corner. The idea of this is that you throw water on these guys, not to be mean, but to encourage them! I felt a little bad at first, but they just smiled at me and beckoned for me to throw more water. It almost became a challenge to see if you could get them from a far, or how many times you could get them, but it was so much fun!

Week 29: This was something they got the kids to do, so my host brother is in that line. (Although I kinda wanted to do it!) They are basically ‘pulling’ that noble’s cart/carriage around! It looked really cute, and they had chants that they taught the kids to sing as they went along.

Week 29: This gives you a general idea of what the streets looked like :)

Week 29: We then watched a super cool ninja show! It was hard to know where to look, plus it was super dark at the beginning, so we didn’t know where the ninjas were going to enter from. It was one of the best parts of the day though!

Week 29: I did throw some darts though! These were heaps of fun! I didn’t do very well though.. So no prize was won. But that’s alright! I got to throw ninja darts!