Pictures of Menno village Music Festival

Kai hiking thru the fields

One of our musical entertainers, all Toshi's friends and mainly singing/performing Okinawan traditional dance/music. This band also did some cover songs, some in English. They were apologizing for their English, but they did a good job and were lots of fun.

Here they are singing to the crowd, they came to us, since we were too far away they said, and serenaded us.

Sage in wonderment at something??

Sage and Kai in the corn

Some of the dancers in costume, beautiful!

The huge pot of chicken/veggie soup we made that morning, they butchered two chickens and we cut up lots and lots of fresh veggies. You never know if it will be cool or hot, that day turned out really hot, but it was still good soup!

Akiko dishing out the soup

YOu can see carrots, japanese turnip and greens here

Someone who uses Menno Village flour brought bread to sell

a view from the field where we held the festival, which was along the border of the woods, so provided some shade, back to the houses

3 little girls enjoying the time outside and the music, couldn't get them to dance for the camera like they were before

Another dancer, encouraging everyone to join in!

Crystal and Steve Rogers, our friends from back in Columbia(now relocated to Minnesota) who came to visit for a few days, we had a blast! YOu'll see more pics of them...

Kenji fanning the grill for the barbecue we had that night when most people had left

Standing around the grill, you can see Toshi's yummy smoked chicken warming up on the grill