Canada Day.
The happiest group in the entire parade! According to Yuko, it's an Okinawa Taiko group. (Taiko = Drum) Okinawa has a lot of Chinese culture blended in.
They were having a lot of fun! ...she even had time to check out the guy with the camera! Or, more likely, the guy behind me...
They were being followed by a collection of their groupies, all dressed in their finery! I think guy was the lead music critic...
Another smile for the guy behind me...
Very pale...
The happy young couple. On his way to scare her parents...
That's a heavy outfit. she's wearing a thick cover over a kimono. You can see the bulge at her back from the kimono's obi belt knot.
All dressed up with some place to go!
"High!" ...women on stilts...
Air mail! I think it's a woman, and she handed out one of the prize envelopes to a child standing beside me.
The Caribbean band! Followed by the Spanish dancers, and then the Pirates!
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