The Summer Festival

Eiko says...
Once again, the HCS held a very exciting, successful Summer Festival which we all enjoyed. The last Summer Festival I went to was 3 years ago when Hiki was still the JT counselor and we, (Boris, Yasu, Hiks and I ) had stayed over at the HCS for a week or two before the Festival to help out.
"Helping out" included scrubbing Lydia's house inside and out, preparing food, and setting up and manning an ice-cream crepe booth. The ice-cream crepe booth was a bad idea. I'm sure you get the picture. There was a stack of crepes on one tray. On a cutting board were unpealed bananas that needed to be peeled and cut before serving with each crepe. There was melted chocolate for decoration and I think we had some sprinkles and/or whip cream to make the crepes look more attractive and sexy. Then there was the ice-cream. There were 3 flavors in one container with no divider, and being that it's summer and all the ice-cream would not stop melting! (like duh) Sure there was a cooler with ice in it which we'd return the container of ice-cream to after serving each customer, but apparently the crepes were good-tasting and we had a perpetual line up of greedy customers wanting more, MORE and MORE. This of course meant that the ice-cream would stay out of the container for long periods of time and be subjected to the naked heat of the summer. After only 30 minutes, the ice-cream was melting bad and before we knew it, there was no chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. Instead, we had a new flavor which I'll call chocovanillaberry, and it was a very difficult mess to work with. The strange thing was that people kept coming for more. I kept telling them that we only had chocovanillaberry, and it would probably taste quite different from what they were expecting, but they really couldn't care less. They wanted ice-cream crepes, chocovanillaberry or whatever!
By the end of the day, my hands were gooy with banana slime, chocovanillaverry, the sprinkles, and whip-cream. Yeah...ice-cream crepe idea wasn't a good idea. Everything else was though. And so everything else was laid out once again for Summer Festival 2009. The curry, yakisoba, pop-corn, kakigori, the American dogs, the baked yummies and beer were all still here. And it was awesome! So were the bands. Kando-Bando did waaaaaaaay better than the last time I heard them play, which would be 3 years ago. Heart to Heart was perfect as always. The kids circus was a brilliant addition and I loved it. It was a hearty summer festival, and I'm sure everybody there really enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Good job, HCS!

Check out the pics that were taken at the Festival below!









It was also Yasu's first time on the Highway, and he did a spanking job! I was so proud of him! I mean, my navigating sucked big time, but he managed to get us there all in one piece, and for a new driver, Yasu drives very smooth. It's smooth like nama beer! Well, will blog again soon. So keep up with me! Loves, hugs, bye. ;)