My Parents' Visit - Part 4 - Misawa Port Festival

Today was an early morning because it's GAME DAY! The Husker game started Sunday morning at 4:30 am so we were all up to watch them win the season opener! GBR! We didn't quite catch the end of the game because we headed off to church, but we had a huge lead so weren't worried about the outcome.

We did a little driving around showing Mom and Dad the base and of course went to get some fresh eggs from the egg vending machine. They are the best eggs, dark orange yolks and actually taste like an egg. Eggs from the grocery store on base (from USA) just don't taste like anything compared to these.

I've got the living room switched over to red, 'tis the season!

Choose 8 of what I consider XL eggs - double yolked,
10 large eggs or 15 small eggs. You can also choose between
brown or white most of the time.
After you put in your ¥200 (~$2) you push the button next to
the door you want to open, take your eggs and close the door.
The eggs are restocked throughout the day.

In the evening (after an afternoon nap perhaps?) we headed out to the Misawa Port Festival, lots of food vendors and a great fireworks display. My parent's got to experience some traditional festival foods, i.e. foods on sticks, and see many more that they could have tried. Almost everything is delicious, although strange and weird to a newcomer. It's fun getting to see a festival through the eyes of someone new again! It's a sensory overload.
What kind of meat on a stick to choose? Grilled beef, pork and chicken are the standards, but there's also corn dogs, tortilla dogs (hot dog wrapped in a tortilla and deep fried), fried chicken, blowtorched pork belly (with or without cheese), sausages that look like lollipops, chocolate covered bananas, whole fish, octopus tentacles, squid, etc. A couple of other standard foods are yakisoba (fried noodles), takoyaki (octopus filled dough ball), crepes and french fries. Did not get pictures of everything.

Yakisoba noodles topped with an omelet (really just an
 egg), topped with ketchup, mayo and nori (seaweed) flakes.
Surprisingly pretty delicious!

After we wandered the food stands we headed back to the car and pulled out our chairs and cooler to enjoy the fireworks display. It was pretty awesome. I have yet to be disappointed by a fireworks display in Japan. There's a video at the end.

Here's the video...there were some cool shaped fireworks at the beginning and the end is the grand finale, can't really hear it, but it's choreographed to the song "Let it Go" from Frozen.

Up next: My Parents' Visit - Part 5 - Exploring Misawa & Hachinohe