Hi everyone, hope you're all having a great weekend!
Yesterday was the day of the National Cherry Blossom- and Japanese Street Festivals!! Got tickets to both, and it was awesome!
My favorite parts of the cherry blossom festival were the really skilled marching bands, and especially the Japanese floats (like the Tamagawa float). Of course everything else was great, those were just my favorite participants in the festival.
Later on, I attended the Japanese Street Festival with four of my friends-got myself a parasol and some bamboo (made the mistake of only bringing $25 besides the entrance fee of $5). Besides the fact that there were no blossoms left on the trees in DC (except for a large cherry tree conveniently growing in my front yard that's a late bloomer) it was really great fun and I'm sad that I will not be in the country to enjoy it next year... (but I'd rather not talk about that -_-)

I don't know if anyone else here on theO was able to go, since I know a lot of you live all around the world, but I would like to hear from you wether or not you went ^^
Also, if anyone has attended, or are attending, any Anime/Manga/Gaming conferences in Europe I would also like to hear anything you may have to say on that matter... I really don't know an awful lot about European cons nor where they are held...

Hope you all have an amazing time, best wishes
-Haitaka