Park ride

I did end up riding to the park today, but kept it to a short visit and didn't do too many things on my ride home (I often do some shopping or go to a coffee shop). It's very green now! Absolutely gorgeous.

This week is called Golden Week as it holds several public holidays. One of which is Children's Day. There are these Carp "flags" up all over Japan to commemorate. These were huge (note the people under the flagpole).

There were a lot of school groups in the park. And other groups too (riding past the BBQ section was a bit agonising). Here we have a lot of backpacks waiting for their owners to stop playing. Squatting on the left of the photo is the "caretaker" of the backpacks. I'm guessing that each class had one tree. Later they would be coming back to have a picnic.

Ah, fresh, spring green! Love it!