**Iris' Castle of Happiness ^_^: Japanese Summer Festival

last Sat, i met up with my friends from 2/4 to go to a Japanese Summer Festival. it was held @ the Japanese School @ Changi. for most of us, it was a long way for us to travel from the North to the East where the school is. furthermore it was a rainy day which made such long distance travelling even more dreadful. however, ALL of us still went ahead with our gathering. hahaha.. it was a great gathering with them as it had been a few mths since i last met up with them. & of cos with them around, i always have non stop laughter. even when we were queueing up for tickets in the heavy rain outside the school, we could still have fun... while waiting, we decided to pose for some photos with our limited supply of umbrella. there were 9 of us & we only have 3 umbrellas! so we had to squeeze and try to accommodate everyone under the umbrella.

Umbrella ONE: Ivy, Jun Wen (Ivy's BF) & Jas..

Umbrella TWO: Lian, Me & Jun..

Umbrella THREE: Shuwei, Shupei & Wen Hui..

after waiting for almost half an hr in the rain, the pple-in-charge finally opened up the gate and allowed the crowd to queue up along the sheltered link way. it was quite a BIG crowd queueing up for the tickets. as Shuwei said, some of the pple may have queue up for the tickets overnight. well, i tot there will be alot of pple but i nv expect such a BIG and crazy crowd...

taking along the sheltered linkway in the school...

look @ Jun.. happily showing a victory sign... well, of cos he is happy cos he is so DRY when most of us r NOT!

with Jun hogging the umbrella, i appeared to be NOT covered the umbrella.. when he tried to drain the water away on the umbrella, poor Shuwei had no where to hide so as a result, her back r all WET! so moral of story is: NEVER let Jun hold on to the umbrella in the rain if u do not wish to be wet! haha...

Shupei & Wen Hui with Shuwei's authentic looking fan. pretty leh... erm.. i mean the FAN. hahaha...

after getting the entrance ticket ($2), we had to queue up (yet again!) for the opening of the festival. so while queueing up, we did some self entertainment by taking photos again! whahaha... well, tis grp of frens of mine r pretty good in self entertaining ourselves...

Lian, Jas, Jun & I @ the entrance...

lovely and cute looking fans sponsored by the sponsors. given out by the volunteers while we were queueing up so we girls decided to take a pic with the FANS!!!

Ivy, Shupei & Shuwei with the cute looking fans...

Japanese Drum Performance...

signify the opening of the festival! hurray! the moment which most of us were waiting for... & were all eager for the end of the performance... whahaha...

there were many stalls selling all kinds of Japanese cuisines such as sushi, curry rice, unagi don... well, i guessed our main motive was to sample all the great food. so even though there were stalls selling some japanese toys and items, we did not really pay attention. heehee... all we care abt was FOOD! whahaha... indeed, we managed to try a great variety of food with the combined effort of queueing up, eating up and clearing up! :D

Lian, Me & Jas with the sushi sets...