Midosuji Parade

Well looks like I fell off the map there for a few weeks.. It's been pretty busy with tests and school and various distractions... at any rate, I managed to make it out to Osaka's Midosuji Parade today. It's kind of an international flavoured parade, with some, but not all off the groups and floats dedicated to other countries, including Mexico, the Philippines and Indonesia (those are the only ones I saw). One thing that was interesting though was that the Japanese groups (especially the school groups) consisted primary of marching bands, although there was one spectacular group of unicyclers doing all kinds of funky tricks like the one in the picture. One girl was uni-cycling backwards and other groups were forming circles and stuff. Of course I have no pictures of this, since all of those pics would have been subject to the ever-present influence of "back of old man's head" obstructing the view. Still I managed to snap a few shots that are here.