Cow Festival

Cow Festival
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Today I woke up late and decided to go do some exploring. I went to a shop that I like called Hard Off. It’s a second hand store. On my way back, I was by the train station and I could tell that there was something going on at Okayama Dome so I rode down to check it out.

That something turned out to be a cow festival! It was like a fair, for a second I thought I had stepped into the book Charlotte’s Web. Standing right in front of me were so many cows that were being paraded around and inspected and petted. I parked my bike and walked over because I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity to see a cow festival in Japan.


I walked towards a stage where people were singing. There were all of these tents set up around the sides so I started walking around. I called Tara and told her to get over to the Dome for a surprise. She was not exactly sure but she came anyway. As we walked around we found all kinds of booths that were selling cheese, milk, yogurt, ice cream and anything else you can make with milk. On the other side was the meat. People were selling t-shirts, giving out pamphlets on my you should have three milks a day, and there was also a little booth set up showing you what you could make out of a milk carton.

We walked and listened to the music. There was a guy on stage singing a song and the words were, “Yo, yo, yo…” We found some real animals that you could pet. There was a duck, some pigs, some rabbits, and some cows. You could even milk a couple of cows but the line was super long.

Afterwards, we were still kind of in shock about this cow festival that I had found so we went and ate lunch and then went to the toy shop with Naoko. It was an interesting day, and the first time I’d ever seen cows in Japan!