This Time Last Year: Fire Festival

This time last year, we were heading up to the mountains of Nagano with our trusty buddies to a) ski in the home of the olympic winter games and b) visit a fire festival where there are a lot of drunk men trying to knock down a platform of even more drunk men. I heart Japan.

Fire and ice can exist in the same place if there is enough sake around.

My first time skiing!

Our good ol' Japanese ride. I miss the Familia very much sometimes - what a perfect little wagon car she was. *Sniffle, sniffle*

To watch the fire festival in action, you can take a trip down memory blog lane to see some videos: http://erikandkate.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-sand-to-snow.html

Meanwhile, the weather forecast for here in Kingsville this weekend is 75 degrees. No snow.