Hirokouji Summer Festival

I went to the 57th Hirokouji summer festival with my friend today.
I LOVE summer festival, yatai (street stalls) and I LOVE eating!!! haha It's kinda funny that Japan has changed a lot in different ways, but summer festival itself havent changed AT ALL since I was little. Each stalls used really memorable tents as signborads. It was really colorful and looked cute. Yatai always reminds me of watagashi (cotton candy) and kingyo sukui (goldfish scooping). A lot of kids gathered these stalls and they seemed to be really satisfied and happy with their stuff. I thought about myself who went to summer festival with family when I was little, and it made me realize that I was exactly the same as these kids.
Not only kids had fun at the festival though!!! Their dads enjoyed beers with yakitori, moms enjoyed taking pictures of their kids, couples held thier hands and ate chocolate bananas together. There were lots of police there and they looked really strict, but when they had break, they enjoyed talking with local people. It's really fun for me to watch people.
I hope that kind of summer festival will be never gone. People wear yukata and dance Bon odori. Some people might say it's old style, but I think it's cool and we should tell our kids about it to continue for a long time.