aimeekitty

So, since the weekend of my birthday I was sick some of my girlfriends took me out to the Tea Rose Garden for Frou Frou tea. It was good and it was great to be chatty chatty girls! We're making it a habit to once a month or two try a new tea place. Here's the posie they made for me:

Also for randomness...
Youta attacking tissue paper:

I'd meant to go to the cosplay meetup, but it was soooo hot... I wimped out.
Today I learned more about my sewing machine at Joann's and then I got dressed up in kimono and Mitch and I went into Little Tokyo for Nisei Week. We got there too late for the fun food vendors though, but just in time for the parade.
My outfit: (butterfly ro kimono), (chidori bird obi and obidome)
my kitsuke is a little sloppy today though. I was tired. I almost didn't go to the parade, but I knew I'd regret it if I didn't go. (I'm so glad I went!)

I have NO IDEA what was the deal with this shrine-looking thing they were carrying? Does anyone know? It was rad though. They were all yelling and tilting around with it:

and then came the main event....
these dancers cleared the way for the samurai float:

which was HUGE (30 x 24 x 17) and AWESOME. Seriously. They moved it like it was stalking or something. There was lots of men underneath it pulling it different directions.