Nisei Week >°))))彡

Hey everyone! So one of the beauties of work is enjoying yourself at fun nearby events. The other week, there was a Tanabata festival event that's also well known as Nisei Week in Little Tokyo. The entire event was tremendously fun and incredibly colorful!

The entire plaza was as pretty and wonderfully decorated as ever. Incredibly lively and full of people! There were also so many cutely dressed people. It ranged from kimono (mostly yukata) to lolita to cosplay to even expensive high end fairy kei styles! I got so jealous just seeing everyone..

I was so interested in visiting just about everything, I didn't realize that I'd wandered into the sanrio store once again...and I was so incredibly interested in this super cute hello kitty taco themed plush!

Also, I thought it'd be incredibly fun to take a picture of the official poster of this year's Nisei week! Although...I have to admit, because it was sunny and because it was on the other side of a window, you're left with a somewhat crummy window shot with a reflection of my silly outfit...

But while we were wandering around the plaza, we'd seen a lot of super cute plushes and items!

It wasn't too soon until we found ourselves in the plaza and I found out about this amazing shop called the Fairytale Boutique on the first floor of the Little Tokyo mall. Also, I was absolutely interested in everything that there was in the shop...but Reis had stopped me before I made any stupid purchases...given my wallet's amount and all. 

Oh! And these amazing people, all of which I can't seem to remember the names of (except for the guy because I had this super fun talk with him each time I'd passed by...his name was Ariel I believe!)...they were all so amazing and super friendly. I really enjoyed the company!

Also, did I mention that we'd found our way to some photo booths? It was absolutely amazing and definitely worthwhile and fun. It does look like I cut my hair though...but Reis said it looked cute regardless...so I didn't mind so much after all.

While we waited for the photos to print, we had been messing around with the photo booth's little time killer matching game. I kept failing, but Reis didn't seem like he was having too hard of a time...although you can't really get that from the picture I'd taken haha;;

Although I didn't pay to write a wish for tanabata, I really enjoyed reading all of the papers! I've written on these papers just about every time I've visited Little Tokyo. I remember the first time I'd tried it was with Kevin back in 2011 and he had made so much fun of me and we were called the "anime couple" by one of the shop owners.

We'd also gotten some takoyaki at a nearby stall, although it didn't taste as great as I'd last remembered when I got takoyaki with Priscila at the festival/faire event that was held in Orange County. I felt a little bad that this was the takoyaki that Kevin had eaten (and then told us about), but on the other hand...I just wanted to say something like "THE JOKE'S ON YOU! THERE WAS A BETTER STALL ACROSS THE STREET" because I'm an ass like that.

They were all absolutely stunning!

And he was absolutely amazing at playing, which was a little surprising. Even Reis kept commenting about how good he was each time he heard him when we'd pass by or get somewhat close.

Soon enough, I found myself getting hungry and Reis went out of his way to get me melon bread!! I was incredibly happy...super happy. 

Did I mention that Hello Kitty was the parade marshal? It was super interesting and excitingly cute!

Reis and I had then waited around for the parade so that we could see Ishida, Victor, Kevin, and Jeremy as they performed in the nisei week marching band. They were pretty good, I was so happy to see them too. Those are definitely my boys!! 

Before we'd leave, we had quickly gotten ourselves some takoyaki again, but this time it was definitely better and had that amazing taste that I remembered so well!!

After a while, we'd decided that we were getting hungry so we'd gotten something to eat at a nearby restaurant called Zencu sushi & grill which had been located on the second floor of the Little Tokyo mall.

The food itself was decent. It wasn't great but it wasn't all that bad either. Reis and I both agreed that it was worth the three stars it had on yelp. Nonetheless, we had a nice time even though I was dehydrated, had a lack of sleep and energy which made me exhausted faster than I'd expected, and had misplaced my allergy medication so that I was dealing with a variety of troubles..

As a heads up, anything beyond this boundary doesn't have any text or captions! It's pure pictures.