Wishing upon stars

Tanabata is a Japanese star festival which is on 7th July. It is to celebrate the meeting of two stars "Orihime/Vega" and "Hikoboshi/Altair" which were separated by the Milky Way and are allowed to meet once a year.

It is our custom to write our wishes on pieces of paper and hang them on a bamboo tree. So right now lots of places have displays of bamboo trees.



Oliver had a go with Yuzuki the other day, well... he cannot write yet so I held his hand and helped him write his wish.



Yuzuki wished everyone free from accidents and their happy life. Oliver was very sleepy and didn't really think too hard - His wish was to get on airplanes (quite an easy wish - it will come true this weekend!)





The bamboo tree looked good with three extra wishes :)