Day of Things

Breakfast at First Watch.
Renaissance Festival.
Fishing pier trip with Carrie, Jon and Joe.
Renfest folk party.

Pictures:
Renaissance Festival
Fishing by the Sunshine Skyway

Apparently I got lucky at the pier too. I was informed after the fact that there were signs urging people to contact the authorities to report photography or sketching of the bridge. Not that it was illegal, necessarily, but... Brr.

雲のむこう、約束の場所

Kim introduced me to an anime called Voices of a Distant Star, (ほしのこえ) some years back. While it was short, and not exactly the most amazing anime production in existence, it was remarkable because, with the exception of voice actors, it was entirely produced by one man, Makoto Shinkai. It also did have a very interesting, if melancholic plot. "Good for him," I thought, and that's that.

Fast forward to today. Netflix recommended this movie I had never heard of, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. User ratings were very high as well, so I rented it, without any clue what to expect. And so, on a lazy Sunday morning, I popped it into the DVD player to watch it.

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