okinawa festival!!

This is the...3rd or 4th year in a row that we have ventured out to hit up the Annual Okinawa Festival in Honolulu.  We don't usually like to head out to these big fetes because someone in our family detests crowds and looking for parking (guess who) but we make an exception for the Okinawa Festival.  :)

Plus, my siblings usually come out too, so the kids always have a blast hanging out with their cousins. 

Here they all are.  Well, most of them, anyway.

 Our scrips.
I swear, this Okinawa festival is getting more and more expensive!
But of course, we still come.
Uchinanchu pride and all...

 They have all kinds of Okinawan food: Champuru, Tebichi, Taco Rice, etc. etc...but we just stick with what the kids like best.  Okinawa Soba.

 And can't forget the Sata-Andagii.

 Which looks like this.
We bought tons of these fried yummies.
And they were all gone by the next day.  :(

Here the girls are eating their Okinawa Soba.

 After dinner was play time.
Anna likes to pretend she's a Chinese Shaolin warrior.
This is her favored pose as of late...

 When she isn't wrestling her cousins, that is...

 Kaden spent most of the evening hanging out with us rather than playing with his cousins. 

 Knox, however, enjoyed being right in the thick of it!
And had to be rescued a few times because of it. 

Soccer time.

 Kela, Seina & Aya enjoying their Andagi's. 

 Atau took the kids to the bon dancing circle for a loop around. 

 Jojo followed the dancers around as well...but mostly stuck to my side rather than dance with the others.

The dancers.
Notice Anna's pose? 
I have no comment...

Me and my siblings. 
Wish you were here, Makoto! 

Me and Mitch.  With Diamond Head in the back.
And for the record...it was sunset so the orangey hue is NOT our natural color!!
Oh well.
And to look at all the other pictures from the Okinawa Festival, check them out HERE!