Halloween @ Lavish in Hirosaki

"Believe in yourself and nothing can stop you" - Sailor Moon

This weekend was one for the books. Friday we had a work Enkai (work party) to celebrate the completion and success of our recent HR visit/ events and long after hours of planning. International Relation jobs are no joke when it comes to planning big events. All in all it was so great and so worth celebrating Friday with delicious food!

Saturday Anna and I were invited as special guests to an elementary school talent show, this is the third one I attend this month. I was crying a lot! and I did not even know these kids, they were just sooo cute! ( I can't even begin to imagine what kind of mother I will be) They had a wizard of Oz play, lots of great singing, playing of the Pianica ( it's an instrument all elementary kids learn to play, a piano/harmonica it's pretty cool) and other great performances.

Saturday night we headed to Hirosaki City to dance the night away at Lavish. Anna and I dressed up as Sailor Moon and Sailor Saturn. I don't really watch any anime and never really did until I met Akira who watches a lot of anime ( Dragon Ball Z,Death Note, Sword Art Online, ' Deadly Sins, Magi, Attack on Titan, Hunter X Hunter, Naruto, Code Geass, Full Metal Alchemist, and porbbaly others I don't currently remember) But Sailor Moon is the one anime that I like, the characters are super cute and relateable! It is basically about strong young women that fight evil and save the world but also have a life of their own. Anyhow...Lavish venue was a blast and I danced all night long, which is one of my favorite exercises! I learned that in my whole state (Aomori) this is one of two places where people can come and dance. Japanese apparently don't dance for fun, and even Japanese weddings don't have a dance portion during receptions.

Here are so pictures of our fun night out:

We found all these Waldo Girls while we were doing PuriKura pics!

Our Saturday night dance crew (missing one)

PuriKura (Japanese photo booths- that make your eyes huge and face and body skinny, like all of them do. It's not an option you can select or unselect)

My before picture, right after I finished getting ready at my apartment.

After pic, coming home in the AM after a fun night of dancing (chilindrina buns-one up one down)

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