Saturday, October 30, 2010

Rokkasho Salmon Festival

Last weekend, we attended the 23rd annual Rokkasho Salmon Festival. Matt purchased a ticket for roughly $18 for the opportunity to catch a salmon with his bare hands. Participants have 3 minutes to achieve this feat, and we now know that gloves would have provided some much needed traction between wet hand and slippery salmon. I really wished that I had taken a video of the event, but oddly enough, a simple Google search produced this video posted by a fellow festival goer. It happens to feature Matt's early attempts to nab a salmon.

























 


There was live music and an entire seating area dedicated to grilling your own meat.





1 comment:

Mandy said...

WOW! How cool! My question is, did Matt have to clean his own fish, or did someone else do it for him? And...I LOVE YOUR MEI TAI!!! I don't know what I would have done without mine. I still use it for Seth, you'll get a lot of use out of yours.