Cherry Blossom Japanese Street Festival

We had the greatest time last weekend. We decided to visit my best friend who lives in in Northern Virginia (only a short metro ride away from D.C.). The Cherry Blossom festival was going on which was the best part of the entire visit! Being a little on th nerdy side - I was in absolute heaven being surrounded by all the japanese culture.

We were lucky enough to get a pretty good spot at the parade. All of the floats were so lovely!


There were a ton of cosplayers which was probably my favorite part of the entire experience. I loved seeing how much effort went into these beautiful costumes and it was fun spotting the characters I knew by name. ;) They even had a  J Rock Band playing on stage. Their name was Magverry and they were great!

 

And of course it wouldn't be a Japanese festival with out super cute character plushies! There was a ton of other cute things for sale as well. My hubby actually bought me a Kokeshi doll. I just love it!

It was all over to soon!
So hopefully all of you had as lovely as a weekend as I did.
Thanks for reading!