Ok so for pictures this week we really only have one event, but a few pictures of it! So I thought I would just kind of explain what is happening here. Basically, Japan has some amazing cultural things they do, and one of these is to fly massive japanese kites. Y____兄弟, my favorite less active, does this as a hobby. He is actually on a kite flying team haha. Basically these teams do this once a year and its this huge deal, they get these kites up and then once they are all up you compete in trying to bring other teams kites down, it is chaos! But anyways, we went to go watch him and we started talking to one of the guys on another team. All of a sudden before we know it, we are getting our fingers taped and getting ready to go fly their kite with them on their team! They show me where to hold the rope and it is kind of hard to get these kites up at first because they are so massive, but they just tell me to grab it and run as fast as I can. So, I do that and the kit shoots up into the sky! Everyone is like screaming and then all of a sudden they are yelling at me in Japanese what I need to keep the kite doing. I guess I was doing really good?...because as I'm flying this kite one of the guys takes off his "jersey" but it's just a classic japanese robe, and puts it on me! All of a sudden I am on their team and doing all the flying and pulling! It was amazing! Seriously one of the coolest things I have ever done. The kite is really big so as the wind is pulling it, its hard work! it is such a big kite that they don't have string, it is like legitimate rope! But basically I was able to get the kite doing what they wanted, and the rest of the day everyone there kept telling me "good fight" haha. An amazing experience! So that is kind of what these pictures explain!
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